Take the New Carousel Mode for a Spin

chapoi
Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:03:38 +0000
Announcements

Do your pictures get lost within the gridded photo patchwork? Are they awkwardly cutting off crucial bits? Would you like them to be center stage? Despair no more – the feature you didn’t know you wanted has landed!

As the more observational amongst you may have already noticed, we have added a new gallery mode. You can now choose between the classic (masonry) grid and the new, focussed carousel mode. Switching is as simple as selecting the option in the top-right corner of the gallery in the RTE[1] :

Or change the mode name directly in markdown mode:

The toggle to remove the gallery altogether has been moved to below:

Some notes

We’re aware the keyboard navigation can be finicky; we’ll improve it in a future update

On mobile, swiping gestures are supported – so technically Discourse could become the next dating app[2], truly cementing our “anything goes” flexibility.

1. Rich Text Editor ↩︎

2. I’m joking – please don’t actually try this ↩︎

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