A dark-first Discourse theme for gaming communities running the Resenha voice-rooms plugin. It turns the forum, chat, and live voice rooms into one workspace: a slim navigation rail on desktop, a context-aware sidebar, card-style topic lists, full-page chat, and a bottom tab bar on mobile.
Based on the design at https://resenha.falco.dev/.
The workspace modes live in the bottom tab bar; each tab keeps its own surface.
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- Nav rail — on viewports 40rem and up, the site header becomes a 52px full-height rail on the inline-start edge: logo on top, workspace icons under it, and the user menu pinned to the bottom. Menus and dropdowns open beside the rail. Core stays untouched; the rail is pure theme CSS plus a handful of plugin-API hooks.
- Settings-driven rail items — the
rail_nav_itemstheme setting defines the workspace icons (name, icon, and URL each). Defaults: Topics, Chat, Voice, and AI bot. A blank URL on the Voice item links to the most active voice room; admins additionally get a wrench item for the admin area. - Sidebar search row — forum search leads the sidebar, mirroring chat's "Search chat" row; the
/shortcut goes to the full search page. - Context-aware sidebar — the forum shows categories and tags, chat shows channels and direct messages, and voice rooms show the room list with live participants.
- Card topic lists — category chip, title, excerpt, poster avatars, and reply/view counts on every discovery and profile list; pinned topics get a featured treatment and solved topics a success-tinted edge.
- Full-page chat — chat always opens full page with a single-pill composer and quiet separators.
- Voice rooms — a call-control rail, presenter layout styling, and a room chat panel that opens via the Voice rail item.
- Mobile bottom tab bar — below 40rem the classic top bar returns and the workspace modes move to a fixed bottom navigation bar with safe-area support; chat's own bottom nav stacks neatly above it, and "New topic" becomes a floating action button.
rail_nav_items— the rail's workspace items, in order. Each item has a name (tooltip/accessible label), an icon, and a URL. Leave the URL blank to link to the most active voice room.rail_nav_extra_icons— icon names used by the rail items; any icon referenced inrail_nav_itemsmust be listed here so it is compiled into the icon sprite.
- A recent Discourse (this theme relies on modern core APIs: topic-list transformers,
light-dark()color tokens, thelib/viewportbreakpoint mixins, andobjects-type theme settings). - The Resenha plugin, installed and enabled (
resenha_enabled: true). - Chat enabled (
chat_enabled: true) for the Chat rail item, full-page chat, and room chat. - Optional: discourse-ai — the default AI bot rail item links to its conversations page; remove the item if the plugin isn't installed.
- Optional: discourse-solved — solved topics get their badge and card treatment automatically when the plugin is present.
Install like any Discourse theme from a git repository:
- Go to Admin → Customize → Themes → Install → From a git repository.
- Enter this repository's URL and install.
- Set the theme as default (or user selectable) and pick the Resenha Night color scheme for the intended appearance. Resenha Day ships as a deliberate cream alternative.
resenha_video_enabled: true— shows the camera and screen-share controls in the call rail.
The Voice rail item navigates with ?chat=true on desktop-sized viewports, so the room chat panel opens alongside the call; share room links with that query param to give others the same view.
MIT