I set up a members-only forum with a public landing page that is populated with posts from a public category (news and public events). I globally pinned a welcome post from the public category, so it’s always listed on top of the latest view to anonymous visitors. Once a user signs up, I’d like thi…

People more often complain that it is too easy to un-pin things that they want to annoy people forever. I think that it’s probably not a problem. You could hide it from logged-in users with CSS, though.

True, I’d also often want the pinned post for our registered users be a bit more sticky :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: Well, from my own experience on meta, the first time I just click it away. Then later I might come back, but need to do quite some scrolling to find the About post again. Is ther…

[image] manuel: Is there actually a general shortcut to the About posts of each category? Like c/category/about ? You can go to a category, edit it, from there you can find a edit button (under General tab) for the description of that category. Takes you to the About topic.

A global pin for anonymous users only

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manuel (Manuel Kostka) November 26, 2020, 1:48am 5

Yeah, I didn’t think about a forum where I’m admin, but as a user. Let’s say I go to howto here on meta. How do I find the pinned topic about the category after it’s unpinned for me?

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A global pin for anonymous users only

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