# Have Latest feed only show Watched categories?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2016 年 1 月 29 日午後 4:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713 "2016-01-29T16:20:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@rockylhotka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rockylhotka)
#### Post date: [2016 年 1 月 29 日午後 4:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/1 "2016-01-29T16:20:15Z")
Is there a way to have the Latest feed only show Watched categories?
In our case we’ll likely have a lot of categories, but many people only care about subsets of those.
The default behavior appears to be that Latest lists everything that a person doesn’t explicitly mute. Is there a way to change that behavior so Latest only lists categories that a person explicitly _watches_?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016 年 1 月 29 日午後 6:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/2 "2016-01-29T18:15:16Z")
We have a query string for all watched topics add ?state=watching to the end. Does that work?
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### Author:  [@rockylhotka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rockylhotka)
#### Post date: [2016 年 1 月 29 日午後 6:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/3 "2016-01-29T18:25:07Z")
I’m sorry, probably need a little hand-holding here. Is this query defined in the admin console somewhere?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2016 年 1 月 29 日午後 6:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/4 "2016-01-29T18:26:52Z")
No, it is simply going to
[https://meta.discourse.org/latest?state=watching](https://meta.discourse.org/latest?state=watching)
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### Author:  [@rockylhotka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rockylhotka)
#### Post date: [2016 年 1 月 29 日午後 6:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/5 "2016-01-29T18:27:47Z")
Oh, I think I see.
So I can’t change the behavior of the Latest button on the menu or the default when people arrive at the site, but they can create a browser shortcut or something to this view?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2016 年 1 月 29 日午後 6:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/6 "2016-01-29T18:31:25Z")
> [@rockylhotka](#):
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> So I can’t change the behavior of the Latest button on the menu or the default when people arrive at the site, but they can create a browser shortcut or something to this view?
Yes. Granted, I think you could write a plugin or paste some JavaScript code to make a link appear in the Navigation where Latest, Categories, New, and Unread currently appear.
**Edit:**
Here is a post describing the JavaScript method
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-to-customize-top-menu/35336/3?u=cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-to-customize-top-menu/35336/3)
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### Author:  [@clay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/clay)
#### Post date: [2016 年 1 月 30 日午後 1:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/7 "2016-01-30T13:51:24Z")
Yeah, I’d love to see a “Watched” button between the New and Unread buttons, visible to people who have watched categories.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016 年 1 月 30 日午後 10:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/8 "2016-01-30T22:56:48Z")
There is some “semantic” complexity around watched.
A watched category means that all **new** topics from this point on will be watched. This means that you may have some unwatched topics in a watched category. (in addition you can mute or track topic individually)
That said, a button that shows all watched topics IF any category is watched is doable.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [2016 年 1 月 30 日午後 11:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/9 "2016-01-30T23:15:17Z")
I think user-customization of the latest page is something worth considering more generally at some point. Hasn’t this come up before?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [2017 年 9 月 28 日午前 9:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-latest-feed-only-show-watched-categories/38713/10 "2017-09-28T09:16:43Z")
Continued here:
> [@Topic list tabs for user-customizeable saved filters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-tabs-for-user-customizeable-saved-filters/40953):
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> On some forums with a large variety of content, users will be most interested in topics that fall into a subset of the categories or tags available. When this becomes the rule, rather than the exception, forum admins can configure the home page to be the category listing rather than the /latest page. But then users must choose which door to go down - and they may be interested in seeing a listing from multiple categories at once. A few topics have been posted about this in the past: [Specia…](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specialized-timeline/40840)