# The curious case of the missing colour squares in Discourse's user activity

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-colour-squares-in-discourses-user-activity/278345>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** completed, hashtag-autocomplete\
**Created:** [September 8, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-colour-squares-in-discourses-user-activity/278345 "2023-09-08T18:49:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-colour-squares-in-discourses-user-activity/278345/1 "2023-09-08T18:49:10Z")

</div>

I was just looking though @JammyDodger 's posts fishing for an previous reply and I noticed that unlike in topics ( **2** ) in [your activity](https://meta.discourse.org/my/activity/replies) ( **1** ) the square defining the category colour is missing.

**1**

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/5/4/6547efb1c003c410553119da3dde5caed73af9f0.png)

* * *

**2**

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/2/4/d2465216cb3c3608d1f07c072cbb53cb7d5e00d6.png)

(Funky topic title courtesy of Discourse AI 🤪)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-colour-squares-in-discourses-user-activity/278345/2 "2023-09-10T15:15:49Z")

</div>

I think I spotted a missing one on published pages too:

 ![published page example](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/f/8/0f8473d5bb2daf8139cf805841477dff1d8aa79b.jpeg)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 9:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-colour-squares-in-discourses-user-activity/278345/4 "2023-11-01T09:13:38Z")

</div>

I believe the ones on the activity page are now fixed 🥳

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/24125](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/24125)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-colour-squares-in-discourses-user-activity/278345/7 "2023-11-02T01:45:20Z")

</div>

I just merged a fix for this:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/24210](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/24210)

It’s not perfect, but it would be quite complicated to get the icons and colours working on this standalone page because it doesn’t have access to icons or category or tag data. At the least, it’s not completely broken like it was before.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-colour-squares-in-discourses-user-activity/278345/8 "2023-11-02T01:57:13Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-colour-squares-in-discourses-user-activity/278345/12 "2023-11-10T06:28:56Z")

</div>

I had one more fix for this here this week:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/24261](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/24261)
