NewerOldCord

A personal project to bring back the previous Discord UI.
NewerOldCordCustom is a fork of NewerOldCordCustom, revamped to look more like the Discord interface that was just replaced — keeping the classic layout, but updating the visuals to feel more in line with recent design and personnal adjustments.

A lot of the modification we're made to make BetterFolders works and not break anything, and PlainIconFolder work too.

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Comparison

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Need Old UI Screenshots

I'm missing a lot of visual references from the old Discord UI for my theme. Stuff like:

Pinned messages
Inbox / Mentions
Server settings
Notification dropdowns
User popouts / profiles
Member list or role popups

I don’t have many screenshots of those, and memory does NOT serve me well. If you have anything, screenshots, clips, whatever—post them on this server. Even rough ones help a lot.

❗ Disclaimer

NewerOldCordCustom is a fork of the original OldCord theme. With Discord rolling out a brand new UI, the old OldCord layout started to feel a bit outdated — so I decided to give it a refresh.

The goal of this project is to update OldCord to better resemble the Discord UI that was just retired, keeping the structure of the older layout while modernizing it to look more like the recent version that many users were familiar with.

I'm very much an amateur — not a CSS expert — and this is all built through trial, error, and lots of tweaking. This is not going to be a long term project, I'm only doing this for myself for now and sharing it. The theme will break with subsequent discord updates, I do not know if I'll have the motivation or will to fix issues that will arise in the future.

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🔦 What This Theme Does

• Keeps the classic Discord layout based on OldCord.
• Updates visual styling to match the previous (2024) Discord UI

⚠️ Light Mode is not supported.
This theme was built for dark mode only — it hasn’t been tested or styled for light mode.

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🛠 Installation

You can use this theme with BetterDiscord, Vencord, or any modded client that supports custom CSS.

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✅ BetterDiscord

1. Download NewerOldCord.css
   (Right-click > "Save As")
2. Move it to your themes folder:
   • Windows: %appdata%/BetterDiscord/themes
   • Linux: ~/.config/BetterDiscord/themes
3. Enable the theme in your BetterDiscord settings.

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✅ Vencord

Local Installation:

1. Download NewerOldCord.css
2. In Discord: Settings > Vencord > Themes > Open Theme Folder
3. Place the file in that folder and enable it.

Online Method:

1. Go to Settings > Vencord > Themes
2. Click “Add Theme” and paste this URL:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SoonBanned/NewerOldCordCustom/refs/heads/main/src/main.css

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🎛 Manual Import via CSS

You can also import it directly with:

@import url("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SoonBanned/NewerOldCordCustom/refs/heads/main/src/main.css");