My use case is to redirect to a Kanban category as my home page, which seems very much like this use case, and I don’t know why it might not be working for him. It’s not civilized Discussion, but having a particular page as the home page doesn’t seem like a wide deviation from what Discourse is designed to do, is it?
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it’s probably possible somehow, but i’m not understanding how all of those settings can work together properly, especially with login. anyways, how do you stop users from changing their own homepage? i set my own homepage on my forums i’m active in. i like this component and have used it for some things in the past (when it was working before), but have never been able to get all settings to work together. it was awesome when external permalinks worked. you could forward a group to external url.
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I admit I was very confused the last time I updated it!
The code here ignores the user setting if they are in a group (arguably, that’s a bug!). So, maybe next time I fuss with it, I’ll add a “honor user custom homepage” setting, that defaults to off to avoid changing the previous behavior.
One problem this component set out to solve (and I think why I wrote it) is allowing any page (not just /latest and friends) be the homepage.
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yea it can be a very useful component. one day when i have some free time, i’ll fork it and mess around with the code more to understand it better.
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Something that might be interesting would be to add a sidebar dropdown to switch primary group without going to preferences. If implemented as a feature could give dropdown of configured custom homepage group list
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