# Rationale Behind Latest As Default Homepage View

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [November 30, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178 "2015-11-30T23:40:47Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rationale-behind-latest-as-default-homepage-view/36178/20 "2015-12-03T00:53:44Z")

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Just to be 100% clear, so we’re on the same page – in your picture where it says

- Release Notes
- User Questions about Images
- Test Topinc in Top Level Category

Those topics you see there can come from either

- “Discussion for Users” parent category

or

- any subcategory of “Discussion for Users”

In other words, **the “Latest” field here reflects the latest topics in _any_ subcategory under Discussion for Users, including topics in the parent category alone.**

(Also, I’d be really careful with extra long and wordy category titles like “Discussion for Users” as Discourse is a discussion solution; the discussion part is implicit. Better to make the category “Users” and have the extended explanation of what the category is about in the category description.)

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