The discussion revolves around the “Show subcategory list” feature in Discourse. Maestra_Powers finds it weird that when this feature is enabled, the main category shows topics from all subcategories, rather than just the main category. They propose adding a “Latest” view for categories and subcategories, similar to the view when “Show subcategory list” is disabled. Maestra_Powers also suggests having a checkbox in the admin panel to control whether to show topics from subcategories in the parent category.
sam mentions that the ability to hide “Latest” from the top menu was disabled, but Maestra_Powers argues that this change also removed the ability to view topics only from the parent category. Maestra_Powers clarifies that the menu suggested by Mittineague is not available when “Show subcategory list” is enabled.
Finally, pfaffman notes that the “Show subcategory list” setting is no longer available, and has been replaced by a setting on each category’s Settings tab.
Shouldn’t it show topics from main category only? Like this - this makes much more sense to me. If I disable “show subcategory list” feature, I can view topics placed in main category only, like this:
But if I enable it - I can’t. I see only one way to separate topics in root category now - place them in another subcategory. But that’s one extra subcategory and my users doesn’t used to this stricture.
My question - if “show subcategory list” enabled, why don’t you guys add “Latest” view for category and all subcategories here? Like on disabled “show subcategory list” type of view.
This button should show latest for this category and all subcategories, not category itself - it should show only topics placed in this root category. Please make this kind of view possible via settings in admin panel. Till then I’ll have to deal with extra subcategory structure.
But you also disabled ability to view topics only from parent category, without topics from sub-categories. Wouldn’t it be better to have same logic here as on main page? I mean - press “latest” button to view latest from this category, press “new” to view new, etc And then you can place topics from only parent category where latest shows now - I think it makes more sense. I probably explained situation in a bad way - language barier, sorry. Here’s another screenshot explaining my solution on how to view topics only from root category. We probably should have just a checkbox in admin panel “show topics from subcategories in parent category” - this is always on right now, but I would like very much to turn it off.
Till then I’ll have to deal with extra subcategory structure.
