I think having the categories view as the default is fine, especially since I can easily access the topics page still if I want to. Having the default set to categories also makes more sense for a forum anyways IMO.
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A bad habit of mine is checking websites with the WAVE extension. Itâs not happy about the lack of some alt attributes, and really not happy with the lack of contrast of the theme thatâs the default (Summer iirc).
Maybe something to adjust, or perhaps see if people who struggle with low contrast can be quickly guided to an alternative theme? 
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This is a good point. There are multiple color schemes available, you can select one to be used in Preferences â Interface. I noticed there were a few areas where Summer had color combinations that are very hard to read (notably on the user profile), but oddly the offending text color isnât anywhere in the color palette. I do think it is very important that we have a solid default color scheme, so feedback on those is much appreciated.
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i was wondering if in the âMediaâ category there could be a books/poetry/writing tag? this would replace #reading-library; since tags are required to post in that category i think it limits a lil bit without having that tag mhm mhm
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great idea! added those :)
im not sure if this is a result of my inexperience in forums, but the reply nesting is a bit visually cluttered to me, where a reply to someoneâs reply to a topic appears as a nested reply that you can toggle to reveal, but also as its own reply at the bottom of the topic replies. not sure if this will be confusing for others as well or just redundant/cluttering for topics that might get a lot of replies and conversation going once the discourse is open to public
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Thatâs an interesting one and I didnât notice the nested replies until you pointed it out.
That said I was wondering why I didnât get a âquoteâ of the post I was replying to in my reply post like I would on a traditional forumâŚ
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iâve noticed a couple formatting errors in relation to the topic lists on the forum.
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whenever someone with a long username is the last replier of a post, it elongates the âlast postedâ column, making the topic height bigger than it should be. you should probably elide long usernames if possible
(the first thread is normal height. the second and third are taller than they should be due to the longer username clipping past its intended width) -
i feel the gap between the category title and the thread posterâs username should be just a bit wider. maybe put a small bullet point between the two, for added clarity?
(an example of this effect in action. if i wasnât any wiser, i would have assummed that the category the Codejam thread was posted in was called âFeedback & Questions Jayâ. :V)
other than that, donât have much to say at the moment. (i do have some issues with how kinda cluttered the UI is but thatâs a Discourse Company problem, not a you problem 
) keep up the good work!
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i havenât used either of these, but iâm wondering if itâs redundant to have both messages and DMs between users? while i understand that theyâre different formats, opening someoneâs user card and being prompted with either the option to âmessageâ or to âchatâ is a little bit unclear.
on a related note, the discord allowed people to choose a role to indicate whether theyâre open or closed to DMs. is there a way to achieve something similar here? maybe added to our profiles like pronouns are?
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One thing thats been bothering me as I use this, is the fact that when I reply to someone, it doesnât show who I replied to when I post my message. I normally would expect something next to my username to say who Iâm replying to. Not awful in casual threads, but I feel it may make things confusing in more complicated topics, especially help topics.
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This needs to be the default right?
edit i replied with a quote, and immediately it automatically removed the quote so it looked like the âstandardâ reply. wild
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on a related note, the discord allowed people to choose a role to indicate whether theyâre open or closed to DMs. is there a way to achieve something similar here? maybe added to our profiles like pronouns are?
Yeah Iâll set this up; I donât have any immediate thoughts on anything else mentioned in here for now bc Iâm tired as hell but I can do this quickly, as a profile field similar to the pronouns. Good catch!
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this is a super minor issue, but i noticed the header logo looks a lil crunchy on desktop compared to on mobile for me. hereâs how it looks in vivaldi and firefox on desktop:
vivaldi is the crunchier one for sure 
vs how it looks on mobile firefox for me (disregard the jpeg artifacts, it looks much smoother outside of the screenshot lmao)
I think it shows who youâre replying to only if theyâre not the post immediately above yours. See Jayâs reply in this topic for example.
EDIT: For some reason my reply showâs up differently than Jayâs. Iâm not sure why itâs inconsistent like this.
Good catch! It doesnât look crunchy on my screen but itâs probably a difference in screen resolution.
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Hmm I wonder why this is. I made the header equal to the specifications given 
Maybe it is a resolution thingâŚ? But itâs not like I made it huge then scaled it down. Idk Iâll troubleshoot when Iâm home, setting a reminder now.
oooh I see it now that you point it out, thanks! I have a feeling that it didnât show the icon for you because you quoted me in your reply, so that serves an an indication of who youâre replying to
i think it came up in chat earlier, but i canât seem to find it now: channel descriptions. the only place i can see them is hovering over the channel in the sidebar. am i missing a description anywhere else?
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for the chatrooms, you can also view descriptions by clicking the âChat Channelsâ item in the sidebar. itâll take you to an overview of all the chat channels
On mobile view itâs a little difficult finding the chat descriptions too. I have to click on the chat options and then go back to settings to see the descriptions
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