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We made it as minimal as we could, but discussion is kind of a noisy activity by its nature.

That said, we want to have excellent skinning and theming support, and I'd love to see "even more minimal" themes. We ship a reasonable default theme for everyone to use, but it shouldn't be so good that nobody wants to replace it, right?

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> We made it as minimal as we could, but discussion is kind of a noisy activity by its nature.

Only if you choose to make it so (and you have).

Hacker News demonstrates that it need not be.

Oh, hai.

Can you clarify how "100% free and open-source" relates to "For enterprises, we plan to sell licenses and on-site private instances." ? Specifically, the licenses part.

We require a CLA for code contributions, so we have an underlying license to all the code -- and we can sell it to corporations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement

Oh, OK. It's the dual-licensing GPL/DWTFYW arrangement. Why didn't you just say so? :)

BTW. Tried posting a reply in some thread on try.discourse - it showed up, but then disappeared in a second. Is it some sort of spam filter in action? The UX made no sense whatsoever.

Jeff, Do you envision modifying the variables and mixins as the main way of handling themes? Or is there going to be an admin upload method or something else that you could elaborate on?

Thanks.

Hard to say since it's so early, but I view theming and skinning support as very, very important in the priority list. It's probably the #1 customization people do on forums! And probably on blogs as well...

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