You might want to go back to our previous default, now called “Categories with Featured Topics” which list the categories and the top X featured topics for each category.
Having spent a little bit of time with this new page, I actually wonder if a reversed version of it would work well as an updated “Latest” page. In other words, show the latest topics on the left and the categories on the right. This would (in my opinion) better meet the default use-case of “see what’s new and fresh” as well as “dive into a specific area”. I know this is probably just bike-shedding, though!
I also felt that the latest on the left-hand side made a bit more sense, especially as the column will likely be longer than the list of categories. But maybe we’re just weird.
A comment from one of my moderators:
There’s very little visual separation between the Category column and the Latest column. At first glance I wondered if [the first post] was associated with the [first category], for example, since it’s right next to it.
It’s not a big deal but users who have customize the “categorie” page can be surprise after the update !!
When i update to 7.3 i didn’t imagine this will be now the default page for the categories and my custom css will be broken. Yes, 10 mins after everything was back to normal but it’s was a surprise.
I may be missing something here, but how do I actually get the categories in “box” style? I have selected this in my admin setting: https://import2.d.pr/ZNNGs9
The setting in your first screen shot is used for setting the style of the category badge. You can see the effect it has by changing the value of the setting. The category badge for the selected style will be displayed for you.
It’s not possible to have categories displayed in boxes without adding some fairly complex custom styles to your site. What Discourse does let you do is display subcategories in boxes above a category’s topic list. This is set on the Settings tab of the parent category’s edit modal. The setting you need to select is ‘Show subcategory list above topics in this category.’ When that setting is selected, you will see a dropdown menu that lets you select the subcategory style. Check out the #howto category on meta to see an example of it.
Hello!
I see that the number of featured topics per category is defaulted to 3. I have found no option to augment that number to 4, like in your example. Is there any way to do that?
