# Home page: Latest posts + Top posts columns
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/home-page-latest-posts-top-posts-columns/157325
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 10, 2020, 5:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/home-page-latest-posts-top-posts-columns/157325 "2020-07-10T05:46:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@guzey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/guzey)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2020, 5:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/home-page-latest-posts-top-posts-columns/157325/1 "2020-07-10T05:46:29Z")
I want the home page of [my forum](https://forum.guzey.com/) to be as interesting as possible. Interest is both a function of recency (which is why news are so big) and something like overall quality (which is why we read old books but don’t read old news).
Hacker News and Reddit do this well: the front page effectively mixes new posts and older popular posts, successfully maximizing overall interestingness.
However, I can’t figure out how to make Discourse front page do anything like this. The default is only showing posts with most recent responses, which encourages never-ending discussions and novelty and penalizes high-quality but relatively self-contained posts that don’t attract regular responses.
You can make categories + latest posts the default home page, but this seems to be just making things worse by hiding indicators of interestingness (like number of views) and distracting people from topics themselves
Are there any plans to allow sorting the front page by “hot” or are there any working plugins that do this (I was unable to find one). I would guess that this would be a fairly popular feature. In fact, I think [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) would be more interesting if front page topics were sorted by hotness.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/home-page-latest-posts-top-posts-columns/157325/2 "2020-07-10T16:52:30Z")
It has been requested a few times. However, if you think `/latest` is …
> [@guzey](#):
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> The default is only showing posts with most recent responses, which encourages never-ending discussions and novelty and penalizes high-quality but relatively self-contained posts that don’t attract regular responses.
… I’m pretty sure `/top` would be like that too, but in some ways have even worse characteristics.
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### Author:  [@StefanoCecere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/StefanoCecere)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2025, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/home-page-latest-posts-top-posts-columns/157325/3 "2025-02-04T06:31:43Z")
i got here looking for the same. now we have these selectors Latest, Hot, New, Top
but they are confusing.. and, believe or not, i can’t make it so to have just the latest posts, _without replies_.. i don’t want an old article in home page just because someone commented.
yes maybe a need a sort of “blog / news” column, where i can feature pinned topics.
and the other column with latest/hot
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/home-page-latest-posts-top-posts-columns/157325/4 "2025-02-04T07:09:31Z")
Does this plugin help?
> [@Discourse Custom Topic Lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-custom-topic-lists/311186):
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> discourse2Summary Allows you to create custom topic lists that can be accessed via a URLhammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [GitHub - discourse/discourse-custom-topic-lists: custom topic lists](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-topic-lists)open_bookInstall Guide [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157)Features This plugin adds a new dropdown; when clicked, it leads you to a custom topic list based on a filter defined in the configuration. The new dropdown: The sidebar links, you…
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### Author:  [@StefanoCecere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/StefanoCecere)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/home-page-latest-posts-top-posts-columns/157325/5 "2025-02-04T07:23:28Z")
uhmm.. i think i shooud create a new component.. to have two columns in Home Page: one with the latest important posts (like a blog) the other with the generic `latest`