Pin more than one topic globally

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Hello. I would like to pin multiple topics globally, but it appears that it’s not possible right now. Can this be added?

For example, one topic can be a default “welcome” topic, and another could be related specifically to posting, i.e., how to properly compose/format a new topic. Because “welcome” topic can have a line to the other one, but practically no one wants or will read the welcome topic (maybe a couple of users), but a topic about proper topic creation is much more valuable and important, since a forum is all about creating a new topic (questions, support, etc.). So at least 2 topics are desired to be pinned globally.

This is probably related to Is it possible to pin a one topic to multiple categories?, but I’m only concerned with the home page, not a page for a specific category.

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I’m not quite sure if I understand you correctly. I have no problem pinning more than one topic globally.

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I simply navigate to the topic, click the wrench and ‘pin topic’.

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Then I select a timespan and pin the topic

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Are you talking about the option to make it a banner instead of a global pin?

Edit: Just now a second topic was pinned globally here on Meta

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Thank you for your guide. It appears we are still having difficulties getting the result. The instance is version 3.3.2. At the bottom of How to post in the Questions category - Questions - Typst Forum, you can see that it says “Pinned globally”. So it should appear at the top of https://forum.typst.app. But it doesn’t. Can you spot the issue? Because we don’t really know what’s wrong.

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Took me a while, but I think I can. The topics that contain the category description (About the xyz category) are hidden from latest.

I think the easiest way to confirm that this is the case is to use the “edit description” link from the edit category interface.

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That is the topic hidden from lastest. If that is the topic where the global pin doesn’t work, simply create a new topic in that category and put the content into that.

You are not the first one who struggles with that. Often replies to that topic aren’t noticed because the topic doesn’t appear there.

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I just wanted to check in and see if my suggestion to create a new topic helped to display the pinned topic in the list with all topics.
Was it actually the topic with the category description that you used, which is hidden there? Or is there another cause and we need to investigate in more detail?

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The problem is that I don’t know for sure, but it supposed to solve the problem.

The issue is that this is a destructive action and all links to the old post will be broken or not helpful. Ideally, I think a redirect feature would solve this. The links to the old post will be either redirected, or auto-updated/replaced with link to the new post. If admin can replace all quotes/links to that old post to an equivalent of a new post, then it will negate the destructive downside.

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Admins can Replace a string in all posts.
I don’t think automatic redirecting is a good idea because then visiting the topic containing the category description would no longer work, so you could no longer edit that.

I would probably have simply added a link to the newly created topic in the new text for the category description, and users would then read the short category description first and then follow the link to the other topic.
You could even leave the content in the category description and create a topic with the same text that you pin. But then it could happen that you only edit one of them.