# Persistent User Preferences on Home Page View
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-user-preferences-on-home-page-view/140886
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-user-preferences-on-home-page-view/140886 "2020-02-06T16:13:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jmgcl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmgcl)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-user-preferences-on-home-page-view/140886/1 "2020-02-06T16:13:20Z")
Hi,
I am looking to allow users to customize the categories that appear on their own landing page by the order of their interests/preferences. In other words: if I am only interested in certain topics in a broader forum, I want those to appear at the top. Obviously that would be different for each user. Can we allow users to select which categories appear where on their landing page?
I see that this has been brought up a few times and a solution of sorts was implemented (sticky categories vs. latest settings for the user a la [User preference for default home page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-preference-for-default-home-page/74171)). What I’m wondering is: Jeff had mentioned back in 2014 ([User-selectable default home view preference - #2 by codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-default-home-view-preference/12816/2)) that we could potentially do this down to the category and subcategory level. Was that ever implemented anywhere?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-user-preferences-on-home-page-view/140886/2 "2020-02-07T01:41:40Z")
Howdy and welcome to meta
👋
We had a similar discussion about this yesterday see:
> [@"Focused" Tab on home](https://meta.discourse.org/t/focused-tab-on-home/140768/5):
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> Note, for certain communities opt-in is a better default than opt-out when it comes to category tracking. Setting the mute all categories by default site setting, switches the forum to a mode where people need to opt-in vs opt-out You would set it so people have certain categories default tracked, and then users can opt in to what they are interested in and have a very focused latest feed. FYI @mcwumbly I think you were kind of interested in this problem in the past.
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### Author:  [@jmgcl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmgcl)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2020, 6:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-user-preferences-on-home-page-view/140886/3 "2020-02-09T06:02:32Z")
Thanks Sam - maybe I’m misunderstanding the solution here, but wouldn’t it make discovery challenging? As this is a new community I am launching, I would be concerned about users not knowing about the availability of categories to choose from or landing on an empty home page.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2020, 7:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-user-preferences-on-home-page-view/140886/4 "2020-02-09T07:27:36Z")
If you use categories and latest as home the left side will still show all the categories making stuff pretty discoverable