The discussion revolves around a user’s issue with muting a category (“Jobs”) from the “Latest” page, despite using both manual and admin settings. jgujgu reports that the category still appears in “Latest” even after muting. cpradio clarifies that muting is user-specific and suggests checking user preferences, as default muting doesn’t affect all users. jgujgu confirms the “Suppress from homepage” option is enabled but still sees the category. cpradio reiterates the user-specific nature of muting. scombs notes a related bug where the “suppress from homepage” setting doesn’t work when the homepage is set to “Categories and Latest Topics.” sam confirms that muted categories are now hidden from the homepage and recommends default muting for all users to effectively hide a category.
IIRC that isn’t how you would hide things from latest, you’d have to use the suppress this category from the homepage in the Category Settings for Jobs (go to Jobs category, choose Edit Category, then Settings)
However, since your homepage is now Latest, I don’t think that option will work for you either. I do know if Latest is your homepage, it does work, as my sandbox suppresses the Playground category just fine.
Maybe? But it would be on a User by User basis. So you have to check your User Preferences to see if it is shown as muted there too. Updating default categories muted does not update all users.
I see. I’ll make a new category to confirm some things. I’m the only user at the moment so testing should be straightforward. Thank you @cpradio
Also keep in mind
Would like to see that bug fixed.
Just going to confirm that we now hide muted categories from the home page.
In fact the best way to evict a category from home page is to default it to muted for all the users on the forum. That way if a user wants to adjust the view to taste they can.
