There is no “simple write-off” here… it is more like a bunch of complex tradeoffs that make this something I am not too keen to explore.
We already have this…
https://meta.discourse.org/g/trust_level_0/activity/posts
So I guess people are asking … “please sir, can I have 
but on steroids please?”
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Just kill the topic page in this mode … we don’t need no topic page … “topic page+list” all-in-one is where it is at. A single page for “topic+topic list” is what I want.
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Effectively let me interact with all these random topics from 1 interface, composer needs to work on topic list.
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Use some algorithm (either I control or admin controls) vs simply ordering on latest
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Yeah… let’s keep “unread” / “new” / “read tracking” all working as well… cause we need it.
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I am mixing topics and posts in 1 interface, you got to come up with some wonderful way of collapsing content… so please do that as well.
There are months … maybe years in getting an interface like this going, it is not something that is easy to refine or design.
We have tons of other significantly higher priority exploratory work I would look at .. exploring, prior to this giant can of snakes.