The “About” a category topic that is auto-generated does not show up in /latest on my site. By default this seems fine, but when a post is added to one of these topics I’d like to see them show up in /latest. Is there a setting I’m overlooking or is the behavior I’m looking for not possible?

Yes, I tested this on my own self-hosted Discourse site and it looks like you are correct. Replying to the “about this {category}” topic does not bump the topic into latest. I checked in anonymous and logged in user mode and confirmed, the “about this {category}” topic is not bumped to latest on new reply in either case. I can’t quite recall why that would be.. perhaps because it is a pinned topic that has become unpinned on read to end? :thinking:

FWIW, it still does show up at the top of the specific category’s view. So it’s just… hidden from /latest. When going through category and topic settings I saw nothing obviously different in the “About” topic than any other topic.

Ah yes thank you. So it’s intentional, by design. It bumps itself within the category but not globally.

Right. I guess it would be cool if that was a setting I could modify? Some indicator in the topic settings that this is topic is “special” would be good too. I use those topics as a combined ‘meta’ and ‘general’ for the category, but maybe this isn’t the best practice?

But showind ”about” at /latest would be the easiest way to tell to community they have new category. Otherway, it is not the best policy to bump up globally meta-posts. This is a bit loose/loose situation.

Default "About" topics not showing up in /latest

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nivshah (Niv Shah) February 8, 2021, 4:41am 6

Sorry, just for clarity: would you recommend not using these auto-generated topics if I want them to show up in /latest or is there a possibility of a change here?

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