[image] Ah, hiding from “Latest” is easy. Open the edit modal for the desired category, go to the settings tab and enable Suppress category from latest topics. . You’ll need to make this setting change in both the category and all subcategories. It seems that I can’t find this any more in the…

[image] swamidass: Will muting the category take posts off the the latest list? Yes [image] swamidass: And how do I make it default muted for everyone? The setting is called default categories muted in your admin settings. Once configured it will offer to apply the change to all exist…

It’s gone. See Suppress category from latest topics gone

Oh wow. That is a big problem for us. This explains it well. [image] Suppress category from latest topics gone Supress category from latest topics feature allowed Discourse to be used as CMS system without spoiling the forum part. For example, we have a category which has about 200 topics and th…

I see that there is a fix, with this plug in: GitHub - communiteq/discourse-suppress-category-from-latest I am on a hosted plan. Can you please install this plugin for me?

Alternatively, is there any chance that @vinothkannans could make it work as a theme component rather than a plugin? Is that possible?

[image] swamidass: I do NOT want the category to be muted by default, because that would overly suppress replies. I think you are misunderstanding the mute category feature, it does not mute individual topics

Okay, what am I missing here. Will muting the category take posts off the the latest list? And how do I make it default muted for everyone?

Okay this is helpful…let me look into it.

Okay. this can work for us, but I do have one question. What happens if a user has a category muted (not a topic) and their username is tagged in a topic created in this category? Do they get notified or not? Thank you for helping me make sense of this.

They get notified, the mute only applies to listing (unless they explicitly mute a topic)

Great. Okay. That solves my concerns. Thank you for helping me figure this out. You are right, I did not understand how muting worked. Sorry for raising the alarm :slight_smile:

Nouvelle interface pour masquer la catégorie des derniers ?

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Stephen (Stephen) Avril 19, 2020, 5:48 8

Oui

Le paramètre s’appelle default categories muted dans vos paramètres d’administration. Une fois configuré, il proposera d’appliquer la modification à tous les utilisateurs existants.

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Nouvelle interface pour masquer la catégorie des derniers ?

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