# Rationale Behind Latest As Default Homepage View

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [30. November 2015 um 23:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178 "2015-11-30T23:40:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [1. Dezember 2015 um 15:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178/13 "2015-12-01T15:53:18Z")

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For me it’s part of the [paradox of choice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice).

When a user arrives at your site, the first thing you’re going to do is present them with a list of choices to drill in further?

I think it’s much more interesting to show them what is popular. What are people talking about _right now_? That’s the stuff about your forum that is interesting long term.

Of course if the user is coming for something specific they can drill down into a category or tag to find it. But they should know what’s active!

Another upside is it feels much less empty in smaller forums (also: brand new forums!). If you started by creating 20 categories, each with one or two topics, a user is going to feel like nobody uses your forum when they enter each category.

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