discourse-minimal

Fixes discourse so that it is more understandable. The simplicity of medium with the complexity of the forum.

Mad street cred to angetran for design direction.

Installation

Copy CSS

At /admin/customize/css_html create a new customization.

In the Stylesheet AND Mobile Stylesheets section, copy the contents of minimal.css. In the Mobile Stylesheet section, copy the contents of minimal-mobile.css.

Save, and hit 'Enable' on the bottom right hand corner.

Copy JS

At /admin/customize/site_text/head make sure you see 'HTML head'

Copy the contents of minimal.js.

Features

• Top bar filters are too numerous. Minimal only allows Starred, Top, Latest, and Categories. New and Unread are removed.
• Notification icon changed from a talk bubble to a bell.
• Private categories should have a lock icon, not a group icon. (BROKEN FOR CATEGORY DROPDOWN LIST)
• Remove Activity, Users, and Posts from the topic overview.
• Remove Latest, and Topics from the category overview.
• Remove the category list from the hamburger menu.
• Remove the user stats below the OP's post
• Remove zebra stripes from category list

Why?

Essentially, discourse is too complicated and has too many features visible for most of the population to understand. We want to simplify the interface to make it easier to undersatnd for those whose primary mode of communication online is email and Facebook comments. We need the simplified interface that Medium brings with the complexity of a forum.

TODO

• Attack the posting page aggressively.

License

Copyright (c) 2014, Karissa McKelvey All rights reserved.

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