In a smaller and less active forum, it’s easy for many of the most recently bumped threads all to show the same user avatar, because one of the users has just responded to several threads. This gives the impression of dominating the space. Is it possible to show instead - as a site setting - the thread author, or a sample of the contributors? I want my small and inactive forum to look attractive to newcomers - I choose the Categories view because it gives an overview of the various things we discuss. But it has this disadvantage.

Hi Ed! [image] Topic Author Theme component warning Deprecated in favour of Topic List Author discourse2 Summary Topic Author will change the layout of the /latest and categories and latest topic homepage showing in the first column the author of the topic. It works both on desktop and mobile. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-author open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Theme… This does exactly what you want, but also alter the topics list like /latest layouts. It works by overriding an existing template. If you want to change only the /categories layout, you can follow these instructions: [image] How to display OP avatar in latest column of the category Support If you only want to change that in the Category page and don’t want the other changes that the Discourse Topic Author will make you can override the components/latest-topic-list-item https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/templates/components/latest-topic-list-item.hbs With something like below in your theme: {{plugin-outlet name="above-latest-topic-list-… Note that templates sometimes change in Discourse, so the new code may need adjustments from time to time (it could also go for years without any modification needed). :information_source: I got all of this info by searching #support display topic author avatar :mag: :smiley_cat: [image]

Can Categories mode show something other than most recent poster?

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Ed_S (Ed S) January 31, 2023, 10:07pm 3

Thanks for the pointers!

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Can Categories mode show something other than most recent poster?

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