I think the suppression comment related to suppressing topics from categories, rather than categories from the homepage – which I guess un-listing would do.
Seeking advice for homepage
The suppress from homepage doesn’t remove the category’s posts from appearing on the Latest page. That would certainly help, or if there was an alternate way to do it, or create a page similar to “latest” that could exclude certain categories.
I’ll work on a sample of the auto-suggest for mobile. I know Discourse auto-suggest on the desktop search, but the mobile interface doesn’t really allow for it. However, if the auto-suggest on mobile just included categories, that would help communities with larger number of categories.
Yes, it does. Perhaps you didn’t suppress a subcategory, as this setting is not inherited by subcategories? That’s the entire purpose of the setting.
(when we say “homepage” we usually mean /latest and this copy should probably be improved)
Hmm, perhaps there’s a bug? or perhaps it’s related to caching?
I have this category suppressed:
http://www.helloforos.com/c/vidayfamilia/sexoyromance
But I can see topics from this category appearing on the Latest page.
I’ve had this category suppressed for over 24 hours.
http://www.helloforos.com/c/vidayfamilia/infidelidad
And just a new topic appear on the latest page from it.
I think this is still outstanding
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Ah. that makes sense!
Okay, so I may try setting it as a homepage after all, and look at setting up a featured topic as a category listing.
Will be interesting to see how this goes…
So, I’ve tried pinning a topic to the top of the Latest so that it provides an A-Z index of our categories, but I notice when I go back to the link, it just takes me to the footer (because it looks at pinning a topic globally as a reply, and I’m getting jumped to the most recent reply).
Something to consider if we look at the welcome message of the community as something that could be updated occasionally.
That depends on your logged-in state and read status in the topic for you as a user. Try it as anon, etc.
You could hard-link to the first post if that’s really what you want to do vs a link to the topic.
Yes, I get that. But I don’t know why a community admin would ever want to send a user who returns to a pinned topic to a reply that says this message has been pinned globally. Perhaps in the future, those notices shouldn’t be treated as replies? Just a thought, I noticed on the Meta Discourse community just now and thought it felt awkward scrolling back up to read the welcome message which has some helpful links in it.
How do I add a hard-link?
That is why you typically close that topic so nobody can reply to it. Depends on the goals.
I agree @codinghorror. I’m just saying that if you pin a topic (no replies allowed) so that it can be accessed more than once, it doesn’t make sense that the user would be taken to the bottom of the topic in the future (because it has a pseudo reply stating that it has been pinned globally)
So how do we create hard-links?
Right, but how can I add that link just to the Latest page?
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My recommendation would be that you just delete the moderator-action post. Unless you really need general users to know who pinned a topic, it only provides redundant information about the topic status (“it’s pinned”).
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@Yuun I could have sworn I tried that before and that it removed the pin. Just did it now and it left the global pin and worked as expected. Thanks. I would think all community admins who want to pin a non-reply topic like this would want to delete that post.
Anyhow, will look to activate this later today 
. Should be an interesting experiment!
Alright, the experiment is now live at helloforos.com :).
Is there a way to customize CSS just for the “latest” page? I wanted to set the background to black, but just for this page. Along with a few other changes. I couldn’t see anything that would distinguish this page from others (there is no class on the body tag).
@codinghorror @sam just tagging in case you might know the answer, or if this could be considered for future implementation.
Is there a way to customize the CSS just for the “latest” page? Having a unique class or ID on the body for the different homepage options could help with customization.
Nope, we currently do not have any CSS designator for latest page (container).