In a new discourse installation, I don’t know why but pressing “Latest” and pressing “Top” it shows different topics. Is there any way that by default will show all topics in a category; Default to all users…
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A discussion on the difference between “Top” and “Latest” views in a Discourse installation. blades noticed that pressing “Latest” and “Top” shows different topics in a category. bartv explained that “Latest” shows topics in chronological order, while “Top” shows the most active topics in a given timeframe.
blades asked if it’s possible to show all topics in a category by default, and bartv replied that the “Latest” view should do this. However, blades found that the topics shown in “Latest” and “Top” views were not the same, even when filtering by category.
After testing, blades found that the issue only occurred for the admin account, and provided a link to the category in question. blades also shared screenshots of the “Latest” and “Top” views, highlighting the differences. bartv acknowledged that the views should be the same and suggested that the issue may require further investigation.
Hey Gio,
Welcome to Meta! The ‘Latest’ and ‘Top’ views do two different things:
- Latest - shows topics ordered chronologically - most recent first (this is the default view)
- Top - shows the most ‘active’ topics in a given timeframe. By default it will filter for the current week, but the user can select other date ranges as well (see below).
Both views can be filtered by category as well. I hope that clears things up?
Hi, thanx for the welcome 
Is there a way to show by default all topics when someone enters a category;
For example I want to enter a category and by default to see all it’s topics.
That is what the ‘Latest’ view does, unless you have something different in mind?
Then something is not going right, see, I have 5 topics (1,2,3,4,5) in “YYY” category, when in Top view I can see topics 1,2,3 - when in Latest view I can see topics 2,4,5.
Do you have a link where we can see this? That might help understand the issue.
Testing now a bunch of things, it seems only to me(admin) is happening this, disconnected or/and with a dump account(tl1) it seems to be working ok.
One correction to my above posting, in Latest view I can see 2,3,5-not 2,4,5.
Anyway it’s this https://kairos.snowguide.gr/c/5-category/l/top
Screenshots are coming shortly
I’m not sure - I believe these should be the same, yes. This question is above my pay grade