I’ve read through the debates about the mute feature vs the suppress feature and I align with @sam’s reasoning about wanting to let forum users control their own Latest feed.
However, the mute feature has one dealbreaker for me.
I just want to hide categories and their sub-categories from the global latest view (the “homepage”), however muting the sub-categories also hides them from the parent category’s latest view. In my use case, this means someone might navigate to the parent category and wrongly believe there are no posts because they’re all hidden within sub-categories.
Conversely, if I just mute the parent category, sub-category posts still appear in the global latest view, which makes muting the parent effectively useless for this purpose.
It seems there is no way for me to hide an entire category (parent + subcategories) from the global latest view, but then still have full visibility within the parent category.
If I mute the sub-category, the visibility of sub-category topics is as follows
Global LatestParent Category Latest- Sub-category Latest
If I mute the parent category, the visibility of sub-category topics is as follows
- Global Latest
- Parent Category Latest
- Sub-category Latest
I want the visibility of sub-category topics to be as follows
Global Latest- Parent Category Latest
- Sub-category Latest
Would the discourse-categories-suppressed plugin address my needs or is this a change that needs to be made to the mute feature?