I’ve turned it off. By the way, it appears where it’s supposed to be in all themes except apparently the Manjaro dark theme.
I’m using the dark theme; it was at the bottom of the page, where it was apparently supposed to be:
New feature: Opt-in to display that your site is Powered by Discourse
I like the animated border effect (though it looks out of place here); like others, I’m glad to see it gone.
Related: These effects were basically impossible (without javascript) only a handful of years ago; now it’s a shiny new thing, and everyone is starting to use it: Animating a CSS Gradient Border.
Oh, maybe I misunderstood what @pheiduck was referring to.
I aim to please. 
What do you folks think now that you’ve been able to check both out? Which shall we fiddle with? I’m liking the Material Design theme myself since it actually has some colors by default; however the Default theme is more of a blank canvas.
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I’ve been using the dark Material as well.
It could use some changes - like the giant new post button.
And for better or worse it has no footer.
I managed to setup a local Discourse development environment several weeks ago, despite breakages in technology since the decade-old Discourse guides were originally published. I find this easier to work with than their provided online theme creator.
The main difficulty (much like others, I suppose) is finding time to spend on it. I am using the Material Design theme as a base reference, and probably won’t stray too far from its basic design.
The Manjaro theme you gave me a while ago seems to have had issues resulting from using bits and pieces from other themes.
It’s likely that inconsistencies arising from this were a cause of some plugins failing; but I can only guess. Keeping any custom additions to a minimum will help ensure history doesn’t repeat itself.
Using the Material Design theme as a reference is a good strategy – it’s minimal; in fact, it’s not overly different from the default Discourse theme.
The most common design elements are already referenced in the main sass sheets, and can be tweaked if/as needed. Material is fully compatible with discourse, and (we presume) any (official) addons/plugins that might be used; so, there’s that too.
As others are now involved, I could continue working on this myself and send it for critique/approval when finished; giving others a chance to then pick it to pieces.
Unless you have a better suggestion.
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Additional CSS rule is working well for me using CSS Override plugin for Firefox
CSS Override for Manjaro forum · gist.github.com
For the Material Design dark I only need to keep override for the last-visit bar
I also changed the header background to a dark green
CSS Override - Manjaro forum Material Design Theme (dark) · gist.github.com
.d-header { background-color: var(--tertiary-very-low); }
I also want to change border-color for better contrast to background-color, and the yellow background-color highlight for new content, but I have not found the selectors for these yet
For the sake of a Firefox override, you might consider this instead:
.nav-pills li a:active,
.nav-pills li a:focus {
border: 1px solid transparent;
}
This way it won’t interfere with the :hover action which displays an animated change to a dashed border on the button-links…
I notice the :hover border-radius is also inconsistent with the Message and Expand / Contract buttons, and probably others. Enjoy.