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Confluence 5.0 does not include the Easy Reader theme. We are moving towards a single Confluence theme that presents a simplified default experience. At the same time, we want to make it easy for add-on developers to extend Confluence with custom themes. Our analysis has shown that very few Confluence sites use the Easy Reader theme.

What will happen

If your Confluence site currently uses the Easy Reader theme, your site and the spaces that use the theme will be automatically transferred to the default theme on the upgrade to Confluence 5.0.

Why we removed the Easy Reader theme

The Easy Reader theme was designed to give people an easier way to read Confluence content – narrow width, larger fonts and so on. Many of these issues are addressed by the new Atlassian Design Guidelines introduced in Confluence 5.0. We now have a larger default font size, the width of the page is narrower due to the sidebar, and so on. This reduced the need for this theme quite a bit.

Additionally, many web browsers these days (Firefox, Safari, Mobile Safari) ship with a "Reader" mode which the user can enable to remove all styling from the system and format the page content in a column in the middle. Those that don't have a mode have popular extensions (iReader, Tidy Reader) or bookmarklets (Readability) to provide this functionality. We don't want to maintain features in the application that are better served by browser features. In this case, browser extensions or settings actually do a better job too – the end user is in control of the readability of their page, rather than the space or site admin.

Feedback welcome

If you would like to give us feedback on this change, please add a comment to this page. We are especially interested to know which features of the Easy Reader theme you use and value the most.

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