# Hide category from latest
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-category-from-latest/347117
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-category-from-latest/347117 "2025-01-14T19:19:46Z")
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### Author:  [@thoka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thoka)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-category-from-latest/347117/1 "2025-01-14T19:19:46Z")
I would like to learn, if [How to hide topics of multi categories and their all sub-categories from latest page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-hide-topics-of-multi-categories-and-their-all-sub-categories-from-latest-page/24416) is still not possible?
Context: I would like to try to talk about machines / tools in one category, which should be publicly visible to users but not capture the “latest” view.
Side note: 10 year old open feature requests could be replaced / enhanced with a summary of current state.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-category-from-latest/347117/2 "2025-01-15T00:53:13Z")
Have you checked the `default categories muted` site setting? Categories defined there will have their topics excluded from the `/latest` page.
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### Author:  [@thoka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thoka)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-category-from-latest/347117/3 "2025-01-15T01:18:31Z")
Ah. I tried this, but only with moderator accounts.
For non-moderator accounts, it is working as you describe.
So at least for moderators it seems not possible to keep latest silent of updates in muted categories?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-category-from-latest/347117/4 "2025-01-15T01:21:46Z")
That doesn’t sound correct to me. The `default_categories_muted` setting applies to all users as a default preference, but individual users (both staff and non-staff) can override this if they adjust their personal notification settings for muted categories.
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### Author:  [@thoka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thoka)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-category-from-latest/347117/5 "2025-01-15T01:49:31Z")
Thank you. It works as you describe.
Apologies, I can’t reproduce my earlier findings.
A muted category will not be shown in `/categories` and in the parent category. I can live with that, since it is still possible to link to it via `#` and topics within it will be shown via search.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-category-from-latest/347117/6 "2025-01-15T01:53:14Z")
Totally cool – glad you’ve got what you need.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-category-from-latest/347117/7 "2025-02-14T01:53:37Z")
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