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Forum App Design Template
Thredly is a community forum app design with a Paper Terminal look, built for founders and designers launching a text-first discussion product.
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About the Forum App
Thredly is a forum app design template built on a "Paper Terminal" aesthetic: warm bone-paper backgrounds, near-black ink text, and an electric coral accent reserved for upvotes, active tabs, and primary actions. A muted sage handles tags and resolved states. A chunky grotesk carries thread titles and board names while a monospaced face renders every number (vote counts, timestamps, reply counts) so metadata reads like a terminal readout. The result feels like warm community boards crossed with the crispness of a code editor.
The template ships six connected screens that form a complete forum flow. The Home feed stacks threads in a continuous list divided by hairline rules, each with a left-edge vote gutter, outlined tag chips, and a top board switcher. Thread detail pins the original post with an inline image and opens into a threaded reply tree with vertical indent lines and a "Best / New / Top" sort bar. A Boards directory grids out communities with member counts and coral "Join" chips, a flat inset Composer handles new posts, Notifications lists replies and milestones, and a Profile leads with a big mono karma number.
Use it in Sleek and make it yours: restyle the palette, edit any screen with AI by describing the change, and add the flows your product needs. Then export it to code, copy it into Figma, or hand a prompt to an AI agent to build it for real, far faster than starting from a blank canvas.
What's inside
Screens included
Home Feed
A top board switcher (All, /design, /running, /homelab, /books) over a divided list of threads, each with a coral vote gutter, grotesk title, mono meta, and outlined tag chips. The fast, scroll-first entry point.
Thread Detail
A pinned original post with body text and an inline image, followed by a threaded reply tree with vertical indent lines, inline vote gutters, and a Best / New / Top sort bar. This is where discussions deepen.
Boards
A two-column grid of community tiles showing monogram icons, member counts, description lines, and coral Join or outlined Joined chips, plus a community search field. The discovery surface for finding boards.
Create Post
A flat inset composer with a board selector, title field, monospaced markdown toolbar, and a coral Post button labeled for the chosen board. Makes writing a new thread quick and structured.
Notifications
A divided list of replies, mentions, upvotes, and milestones like hitting 500 upvotes, each with a square icon and mono timestamp, plus a Clear all action. Keeps users on top of their activity.
Profile
A big mono total-karma number above post and comment counts, Threads / Comments / Saved tabs, and a list of the user's threads with vote gutters and board tags. The user's home base.
Design & features
Key features
- Paper Terminal aesthetic: bone paper, ink text, electric coral accent
- Grotesk titles paired with monospaced metadata readouts
- Signature left-edge vote gutter on every thread, comment, and reply
- Continuous thread lists divided by hairline ink rules
- Outlined rectangular tag chips with mono labels
- Threaded reply tree with vertical indent lines
- Fixed bottom nav with a solid coral underline for the active tab
- Flat inset composer with a markdown toolbar
Audience
Who it's for
Use cases
What you can build
- Launch an MVP for a niche interest community
- Mock up screens for an investor or stakeholder pitch
- Hand a consistent forum UI off to developers
- Explore a redesign of an existing discussion app
How to use this template
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Open the template
Browse the screens and preview the full design to see if it fits your idea.
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Use this template
Open your own fully editable copy in Sleek with one click.
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Edit with AI
Restyle the palette, change layouts, and add or remove screens just by describing what you want.
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Export and ship
Export your design or hand it to developers, and keep building toward launch.
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