# Pinned topic preview

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pinned-topic-preview/162611
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 31, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pinned-topic-preview/162611 "2020-08-31T23:39:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![P2W](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/p2w/32/304345_2.png) [@P2W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P2W)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pinned-topic-preview/162611/1 "2020-08-31T23:39:48Z")

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How do I turn this thread preview off?

I want only the titles to display when inside a category. I think the post preview is very distracting.

 ![Screenshot_20200831-173644](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/4/c4126272be06dcffba599dfac173a8bd43583c78.jpeg)

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pinned-topic-preview/162611/2 "2020-09-01T04:45:15Z")

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There are two site settings that you can disable:

`show pinned excerpt desktop`

and

`show pinned excerpt mobile`