I guess that a lot of confusion comes from having those 2 topics available with so much information and links. Let me clarify what I’m experiencing now:
When I go to this topic:
you can see that the link includes the original developer’s name (I believe), vinothkannans, but when I click it, it sends me to another place:
That leads me to believe that the “old” plugin is now part of Discourse’s official plugins. You can see that the plugin was updated last month, meaning, it’s a valid and working plugin. So if we focus on that plugin alone, there are 3 issues:
1 - no clear instructions on how to use it
2 - no dedicated page here on the forum for that plugin like other plugins have (or at least I couldn’t find it)
3 - no option, inside each category, to hide it from latest (unless it’s somewhere else).
Then we have those 2 topics you shared @Andrew_Rowe, which are long, full of different information, links, etc, which don’t help us figure out what plugin to use, which link to click, etc.
I found one topic that shows the checkbox:
Thing is, when I go to a category, I can’t find that checkbox…