Making a chat room the home page

[tobiaseigen]

This is now a thing!

You can now set a chat channel as Discourse's default homepage

As of October 15th, Discourse updates will include a new option for the default homepage site setting: chat channels! [Discourse chat channel homepage settings] When you select “Chat channel” as an option you get a secondary setting to choose a channel. If the channel selected isn’t available to someone, the homepage falls back to the first option in the top menu setting (often /latest or /categories). If you’d like anonymous visitors to have read-only preview of the homepage channel you ca…