Is it possible to change what newly invited users see for the first time they visit the site? Currently they see top posts of all time - but in our case, we just launched our site as a closed beta and all the top posts are really bad posts (because they are just old and received a lot of hits while we built the site) Is it possible to change the default landing page for newly invited users to ‘recent’ or similar?

Found a setting for it! [image] It did the trick for us! However, our top default timeframe is still broken :slight_smile:

It is alright content, but it is showing really old topics we created a long time ago. We just want new users to see recent topics, really.

Hmm, I can see an argument for default top for new users to be “this year” instead of “all time” @zogstrip. That’d at least rule out ancient topics. But we do have top page default timeframe in site settings… have you tried changing that?

yeah changed it to weekly - which would also work for us – but nothing changed. Still showing top posts of all time.

That may be a bug then for @zogstrip to look at.

yes, top page default timeframe does not change anything on our site. not even the actual default timeframe when clicking top. Would be great to have a fix for that!

Yeah this should work, and the default should be “This Year” out of the box @zogstrip. That would prevent long-dead topics from being highlighted..

That setting works for me… top page default timeframe, changed it to weekly, visited the /top page, it shows weekly. Switched it to yearly, it shows yearly. Now, whether the redirecting a user to the top page utilizes that setting, is a completely different question. The intent I believe for that setting was when Top was set to the homepage, you could make it showcase a certain timeframe versus all, to make the homepage look more fresh and interesting. More details on that setting at [image] Visiting User visiting Top, shorten time frame shown by default Feature Okay, so Sitepoint just had a big internal discussion over what page the user should see when they first visit your community, and we primarily are interested in Top except for one glaring problem. Top seems to default to Year for the time frame when not logged in. The results of which are less than thrilling. If it defaulted to the past week or past month, this would be very meaningful, as it would show relevant semi current data, instead of showing topics that were closed and things that were…

Weird, changing the default top timeframe does nothing on our site. Screenshots below: [image] Changed the setting [image] No effect at /top (Danish site, år means year)

How are you visiting that page? Are you logged in or an anonymous user? Are you returning to the site after being away for a while? What is the value of topics_per_period_in_top_page in your Admin > Settings? As that site setting only affects the default view, there is logic in Discourse that may switch it to something else if you weren’t there for several days app/controllers/list_controller.rb 8cabc1409 def self.best_period_for(previous_visit_at, category_id=nil) best_periods_for(previous_visit_at).each do |period| top_topics = TopTopic.where("#{period}_score > 0") top_topics = top_topics.joins(:topic).where("topics.category_id = ?", category_id) if category_id return period if top_topics.count >= SiteSetting.topics_per_period_in_top_page end # default period is yearly SiteSetting.top_page_default_timeframe end def self.best_periods_for(date) date ||= 1.year.ago periods = [] periods 8.days.ago periods 35.days.ago periods 180.days.ago periods << :yearly periods end That logic didn’t change. Wonder if it should have… as maybe the score is finding a value acceptable via :yearly on your setup.

Change the first view for newly invited users?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) April 5, 2016, 7:20am 2

No way to do that at the current time – I suggest cleaning up the old topics in advance. If it’s bad content you are not comfortable putting in front of people, why keep it on your site?

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