# Rationale Behind Latest As Default Homepage View

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [2015年十一月30日 23:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178 "2015-11-30T23:40:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Rob\_Waters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Rob\_Waters](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Waters)\
**Post date:** [2015年十二月3日 15:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178/21 "2015-12-03T15:57:43Z")

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Yes, I was clear on that. In fact, it’s a third thing about the platform that’s less than ideal for our concept (the ability to categorize posts in top-level buckets of the hierarchy). Given the way Discourse works, it seems that an arrangement like this might suit us better:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/9/89e461d251d800c1ce267314760c226b24ba9d33.png)

Yea / nay?

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**Author:** ![Yuun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/977dab/32.png) [@Yuun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yuun)\
**Post date:** [2015年十二月3日 16:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178/22 "2015-12-03T16:45:33Z")

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Honestly the first thing I thought of after reading your last post was that you were looking for category groupings. That looks like a solid workaround, to me.

**Mod Edit:**

> [@Category bundles, aka category intersections](https://meta.discourse.org/t/grouping-categories/35278):
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> Hi all, so I know you have this great category structure and put a lot of thought into it. And I love it. I’d love one additional feature here to group categories in a way that the groups could be collapsible hiding the categories underneath (i.e. “category bundles” or “category groups” or “category directories” or “category intersections”). I’d find that useful here on Meta actually. What we want to do is things like: Products (no topics belong here, this is purely for grouping. It is not …

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**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [2015年十二月3日 23:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178/23 "2015-12-03T23:00:46Z")

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Devil’s advocate:  
Are you designing for the way people use your community, or how you _think_ they will?

In my experience, people either come to a community and immediately search for what they need, or they post based on the CTA that brought them in (a “post here” email etc).

Rather than presenting people with choices/categories, presenting them with social proof might be a better driver for engagement.

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