Is there any functionality in the hosted version of Discourse that would allow for a customizable homepage or discussion feed?
We have a lot of users who ask for a customized homepage where they could see only discussions in categories that they’re most interested in prioritized at the top. This way, they wouldn’t have to filter through as many things that weren’t of interest.
Is this possible to do? Would be a really cool feature / functionality.
If you have a reasonable number of categories, they can mute them in their preferences. If you have dozens (or hundreds) of categories, that’s a bit painful and there’s not a great solution.
Also extremely interested in a solution to this. I want to set up a site that is 99% about the community, but ideally want a welcoming home page on the main domain. Thanks.
Thanks Jay! The only issue with that is I’d still like users to have access to the other topics, but prioritize the ones that are most important. In a perfect world, a user could prioritize categories to be shown at the top of their feed, and that featured section could have the most recent 10 discussions from those categories. Then, below, they could scan all of the categories that were of secondary interest if they have time.
Just a way to help curate the discussion for users based on their interests.
That is, in fact, already the way the categories page works by default. It sorts the most active categories at the top. That’s by design, so the categories people participate in the most tend to show up first.
(Unless the site owner has unwisely opted to force a static category sort order 
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The only way this would break down is if people on your site really dislike the most active categories.
I am one of the unwise but I have a lot of categories with subcategories for organization. I would love to see an additional view of categories sorted by most visited but also have this overall view to help the user navigate the forum https://community.naturephotographers.network/
This sounds suspiciously close to that:
Which morphed into this (now broken) plugin:
Ho proposto una soluzione per questo problema e sto cercando supporto qui: New Theme: Tag-Pages Navigation
Ritengo che la navigazione attuale di Discourse diventi inefficace quando un forum ha troppe categorie. La visualizzazione predefinita risulta confusa per gli utenti, poiché c’è troppo da gestire senza una struttura evidente. La visualizzazione fissa, a questo punto, offre semplicemente troppe opzioni. Una regola fondamentale dell’UX è offrire all’utente 3-5 scelte per ogni pagina.
In entrambi i casi, a questo punto, il forum ha senso solo per gli utenti più dedicati, mentre gli altri si sentono persi o disinteressati, invece di essere coinvolti e in grado di accedere rapidamente a ciò che stanno cercando.