The compromise we reached on our forum was to
- Set categories as the homepage
- On mobile, make the logo link to /latest
That way the categories view is welcoming to potentially new visitors, while regular users are just 1 tap away from the ‘latest’ page.
The suggestion came from somewhere on meta, but I can’t find it right now.
The code we use (in the Mobile “Header” section of CSS/HTML customisation) is
<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.4">
api.changeWidgetSetting('home-logo', 'href', '/latest')
</script>
(on an unrelated note, can json uploads be enabled on meta, so we can share “exported” customisations for others to easily import?)