# Making a chat room the home page **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Tags:** free-plan\ **Created:** [February 11, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-chat-room-the-home-page/395785 "2026-02-11T11:29:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-chat-room-the-home-page/395785/11 "2026-10-28T16:39:44Z")
This is now a thing! > [@You can now set a chat channel as Discourse's default homepage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-now-set-a-chat-channel-as-discourses-default-homepage/414808): > > As of October 15th, Discourse updates will include a new option for the default homepage site setting: chat channels! When you select “Chat channel” as an option you get a secondary setting to choose a channel. If the channel selected isn’t available to someone, the homepage falls back to the first option in the top menu setting (often /latest or /categories). If you’d like anonymous visitors to have read-only preview of the homepage channel you ca… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-chat-room-the-home-page/395785)._