Speaking of such possible little things, I notice that today I'm now seeing banners on posts like
It’s been a while since we’ve seen — their last post was 1 year ago.
This is the first time has posted — let’s welcome them to our community!
and maybe a few other differences I can't pin down. I don't mind them, but they might be an unintentional change.
I have always seen those, so maybe you disabled them long ago, and your setting was reset.
Anyone know how to disable these?
According to the interaction with staff, as far as normal site settings go, everything that was affected should have been reset, as far as they can tell.
Sorry for the confusion, that was me; and mostly unrelated, except that this incident was giving the context where I was first going through admin site settings a lot. I think it’s quite useful to be able to tell new users easily – the “it’s been a while” ones, perhaps not so much.
I, too, have also “always” been seeing these, and was surprised to find out how how limited the set of users was that gets these was (only trust level 4 “Leader”) – in the context of making site settings more “the same” between Internals and Users forum, I made these visible to more users; but to try things out first, only to trust level 3 “Regular”, for the time being, whereas the default threshold would be level 2 “Member”.
Unfortunately, their visibility can’t easily be individually disabled / configured.
The best solutions to “disable” them outright would be via CSS in “themes”.
On Internals, they have been enabled to all users of trust level 2 “Member” (and above), which is the Discourse default. It looks like Internals had another tweak in place to hide them though – via a CSS customization in the site theme, but it removed that now because it hid too many notices (including manual staff notices) – and it was only partial anyways, as it was only affecting one of the two theme options they had there – I was quite surprised yesterday when I found out, by accident, that those weren’t generally visible on IRLO.
@blonk I’m not sure yet what the best path is. It should probably be possible to do the theme tweak “correctly” (only affecting the “new user” / “returning user” banners) – though perhaps the only way for individual user control then would be to fully duplicate the site theme(s) in one version with and one without that.
I've kept silent on this because I wanted to see if it would actually get reset, but apparently the answer is "no" from Discourse's side. The top banner used to be a light grey (like IRLO), but is now white. It has absolutely no effect on anything, but it is something that changed.
Would this be in the light theme? When using dark theme in Brave on Android, the top banner is a dark red, on which the black rust logo is barely visible (that looks quite bad now that I think about it).
I don't think Brave is doing anything like the Dark Reader addon that I use on desktop, so probably this is an issue with the website theme.
Yes. I don't care for the dark theme on Discourse.
Each to their own, I can't stand using light theme (for anything really), much more tiring on my eyes. I found that light theme only makes sense on dim screens in direct summer sunlight.
At least for me, this difference has existed for several years— I use it to remind myself which site I’m looking at when composing a reply.
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