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Every IPS client at launch of v5 immediately changing all of their color schemes just to play with the theme editor.  
Nice job with the theme editor controls.  There are so many options to customize the theme.  
I'm personally most excited about mobile views and header controls to control the placement of logos, menus, and breadcrumbs.  Menus and above the fold placement is especially important for a mobile world, and we need to be judicious with how space is allocated.  

Thanks for the feedback everyone!
Thanks mate! Third party designers will be able to release themes which take advantage of all of these features, which almost makes "premade themes" much closer to "custom themes". If you find a theme for sale, but the header positions aren't quite right for example, you'll be able to customize it without asking the designer for custom changes. Win win for both the designer and the customer!
 
The web developer tools built into your browser are likely the best solution here. I'll write up documentation for all of the new components (grid, buttons, etc), but as for the custom CSS editor, there are no plans at this stage to expand it beyond a regular code editor.
 
Yeah, the swatches will come in really handy. It's a much easier system instead of manually trying to allocate light/dark shades manually.
The header background in the intro was added via Custom CSS. I've been thinking of the best way to add an image feature for the header, but making a simple UI for something like that is ironically a very complex task since you also need to cater for the multiple header/nav bars as you mentioned. It's very simple to add using CSS, so at least there's a simple fallback if nothing else comes to mind before the release date 🙂
There are no plans for gradients, but since you seem pretty confident with CSS, you'll have no problems adding them using the code editor 🙂
 
Thanks David!
There certainly is. Snippets are truncated to a maximum of 680 characters for memory - but you can trim that down using CSS line-clamp. One line of CSS can do that for you. 👍

This is remarkable. 
Will there be a way to adjust the length of the snippets? I like the idea, but I wouldn't want them to be too long. Trying to strike a balance between enough content visible to get people interested in the conversation, but not too much so that they still have to open the topic to read more. 
I was going to watch a Netflix movie but I think I'll watch that video 6 times in a row instead. 😍
@Ehren for the win!! 

This is hot hot hot!
I assume there will be a process to save and import/export themes still?

That's very encouraging to see, thanks Matt (and thanks for giving us a tiny peek at V5 wiki pages too? 🤔😛)

Insane! I love it!

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It's truly amazing to see how easy the theme editor is. The amount of possibilities are really endless. And that will definitely be fun to see various communities making their own version. Having a 3rd party theme designer create something like this custom for you is worth alone thousands of dollars. This version takes your community to a whole new level. I don't think people can really comprehend how much work goes into this.
Brilliant work team, well done. Couldn't be more excited to see more!

This is absolutely next level. well done IPS 👏
Great job @Ehren