Can't Change homepage style through Wizard

[Jack_Sparrow]

so I visited example.com/wizard and, at step 3, clicked on “configured more”.

From the next page, I selected “Subcategories with featured topics” and clicked “next”. Then completed the wizard, but my homepage doesn’t change. It is still “Category only”.

[Jack_Sparrow]

I have fixed the problem by changing it from the setting desktop category page style

I think it is a bug that this would not change from the wizard. Wizard is suggested in this post,

Category homepage as default?

Yes, I also realized that showing the category page by default might provide better orientation for new users and changed my homepage. When read @HAWK’s statement, I’m wondering: if that is indeed a general “rule”, then wouldn’t it make sense to set the category page as default homepage for new forums? Disclaimer: I’m assuming that there is a default homepage. I don’t remember whether this is something you are asked to specific in the setup process, but even if it is, there’ d seem to be some…

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

I tried it out myself and can confirm the issue. I can successfully switch between /latest and /categories as a homepage with the wizard, but when I attempt to change the style of /categories it stays the same.

[blake (Blake Erickson)]

I’ve created a PR to fix this issue:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/19462