# Two ways I've gotten more used to the new site **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474 "2020-06-23T18:04:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/1 "2020-06-23T18:04:41Z")
First, and most importantly, change your theme to Discourse Classic. This is way, way better. I can’t emphasize that enough. Secondly is to take the new site in very little doses. For the first and second day, I just logged on, poked around for maybe 5 minutes and then left. I did this maybe half a dozen times a day. This morning when I first opened up the new site it wasn’t nearly as jarring and I can tell now that I’ll be used to it in no time. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/2 "2020-06-23T18:08:02Z")
How does one do that? ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/3 "2020-06-23T18:10:33Z")
Click your icon in the top right. Then click the bell icon. Then preferences, then Interface, then select Discourse classic. Or Vincent, some people seem to like that. I tested them all and the classic is the closest to the SDMB imho. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/4 "2020-06-23T18:12:31Z")
It’s a bit of a convoluted process. I clicked my picture in the top right. Then I clicked my name in the popup menu that appeared. Then **Preferences** then … over to the left side of the screen, **Interface** under the **Account** menu. Pick a theme and click **Save Changes** I’m looking at “Discourse Classic” and it seems appealing. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/5 "2020-06-23T18:13:59Z")
Thanks. Yeah, I like that better, too. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/6 "2020-06-23T21:31:41Z")
For me Straight Dope Dark is the best one. And the header looks much much better this way. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/7 "2020-06-23T21:37:09Z")
Hmmm, Straight Dope Light isn’t bad (dark backgrounds are really hard for me to read text), but I think I like the space between posts with Discourse Classic better. I’m on my phone, currently, but I’ll check it out on my computer later. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/8 "2020-06-23T23:41:57Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > First, and most importantly, change your theme to Discourse Classic I wish I could have Discourse Classic, but remove some space between the replies… ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/9 "2020-06-24T00:59:50Z")
I like Discourse Classic too. Good call. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/10 "2020-06-24T01:17:30Z")
The top right icon, your name and then “Activity” will list what you’ve posted, which I like to follow up on threads I’m participating in. I still don’t know how to reply with quote. Do you have to do that manually? ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/11 "2020-06-24T05:45:23Z")
I’m not sure how to do that either. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/12 "2020-06-24T05:52:18Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I still don’t know how to reply with quote. Do you have to do that manually? > [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > –I’m not sure how to do that either. The easiest way is to highlight what you want to quote. A button will appear that says “quote”, click that and a reply box will open with the quote in it. You can do this with more than one post, like I just did here. There are other ways, but this is what I do. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/13 "2020-06-24T06:02:10Z")
@Lumpy and @FloatyGimpy: That’s one way to quote a portion of a post. To quote an entire post, here’s another way: The other way to make a quote is to click on the Reply button (the one at the bottom of the post, not the one at the bottom of the thread). This opens an empty editor window. The left-most icon on the editor tool bar is a little speech bubble. Click on that. This imports the entire text of the post you are quoting. You can then edit that as needed. Be sure the [quote] and [/quote] tags are on lines by themselves! If they are not, the quote won’t be formatted right! I’m seeing a lot of users having problems with this, especially if they’re trying tricky things like multi-quoting. Either way, there’s a gotcha: If you are quoting the immediately previous post, and you are quoting the entire post, then the Disco-Nanny-Bat helpfully deletes the quote from your new post! Go figure! You have to make some change to the quoted text to prevent that from happening. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/14 "2020-06-24T06:43:29Z")
I’ve tried a couple of the themes. I like the Discourse Classic pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/15 "2020-06-25T05:48:08Z")
to me vincent is the closest to the old “boxes” like we used to have ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-ways-ive-gotten-more-used-to-the-new-site/912474/16 "2020-06-25T06:01:08Z")
I’m using the Vincent now. I like it.