# Improvements i want for my discourse for making it less overwhelming/noisy for newcomers

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvements-i-want-for-my-discourse-for-making-it-less-overwhelming-noisy-for-newcomers/259030>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [March 22, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvements-i-want-for-my-discourse-for-making-it-less-overwhelming-noisy-for-newcomers/259030 "2023-03-22T13:09:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![mattdm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mattdm/32/216484_2.png) [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvements-i-want-for-my-discourse-for-making-it-less-overwhelming-noisy-for-newcomers/259030/2 "2023-03-22T15:52:27Z")

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> [@albjeremias](#):
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> **User** : on the avatar menu (on top right) be able to customize this menu, and add a item directly to see the activity of itself (this is really relevant, if u want to continue the work you didn’t finish last time, and continue from there)

It’s there under the “person” icon on the submenu — but not right at top-level. Alternately, you could use the new global custom section in the other menu (the sidebar).

> [@albjeremias](#):
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> **topic/category** i would really like to have the option of “activity” for a category of subcategory

I don’t understand this one.

> [@albjeremias](#):
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> 2- i want to hide all posts from subcategories in categories… it feels very noisy

You can do this with a setting for the parent category.

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