I understand that the “Suppressed from latest” was removed at some point from Discourse. While it was very self explanatory, I can’t say the same about “muted”. Can you explain what “muted” means and whether I can use it to have the same functionality of “suppressed”?
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I’ll do my best to explain both below:
The “Suppressed from latest” feature is essentially a forced global mute for a specific category. The category still appears as it normally would on the Categories page, but topics from suppressed categories do not appear on the Latest page. It effectively takes away the user’s power to customize some of their experience on the Latest page. Some community managers find this behavior helpful under specific circumstances. The feature was split out into a plugin: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-categories-suppressed
With muting, you can mute topics, tags, categories, and even users. Each context is a little different, though:
- Topic: You will never be notified of anything about the topic, and it will not appear in latest.
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Tag: You will not be notified of anything about new topics with the tag, and they will not appear on your unread tab. (Note that there is a
remove muted tags from latestsite setting to tweak muted tag behavior). - Category: You will never be notified of anything about new topics in the category, and they will not appear in latest. Muted categories are placed at the end of the category list on the Categories page and appear much less prominently.
- Users: Suppress all posts, notifications, and PMs from a user
As an admin, you can set default muted tags and categories from your site settings. However, users will always be able to override the defaults from their user preferences.
There is also a mute all categories by default site setting that creates an opt-in experience for users.
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I’ve read through the debates about the mute feature vs the suppress feature and I align with @sam’s reasoning about wanting to let forum users control their own Latest feed.
However, the mute feature has one dealbreaker for me.
I just want to hide categories and their sub-categories from the global latest view (the “homepage”), however muting the sub-categories also hides them from the parent category’s latest view. In my use case, this means someone might navigate to the parent category and wrongly believe there are no posts because they’re all hidden within sub-categories.
Conversely, if I just mute the parent category, sub-category posts still appear in the global latest view, which makes muting the parent effectively useless for this purpose.
It seems there is no way for me to hide an entire category (parent + subcategories) from the global latest view, but then still have full visibility within the parent category.
If I mute the sub-category, the visibility of sub-category topics is as follows
Global LatestParent Category Latest- Sub-category Latest
If I mute the parent category, the visibility of sub-category topics is as follows
- Global Latest
- Parent Category Latest
- Sub-category Latest
I want the visibility of sub-category topics to be as follows
Global Latest- Parent Category Latest
- Sub-category Latest
Would the discourse-categories-suppressed plugin address my needs or is this a change that needs to be made to the mute feature?
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Apparently, it appears under a “Muted categories” spoiler. Any way to never hide any muted categories under such a spoiler?
The default is now that a muted category get hidden into a collapsible table at the bottom of the the categories page.
I’m trying to achieve to have a muted category to keep appearing in its normal place in the categories page (but to turn off notifications from its topics and hide its topics from the latest topics as well).
From my understanding, by using the discourse-categories-suppressed plugin I could just hide some specific category posts from the latest topics, but there would not be a way to prevent some users to receive notifications for them.
Do you guys know by chance if there is a way to achieve the result I’m looking for? (to mute a category but keep it listed in the categories page).
Thank you!
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This plugin would be great if it could prevent updating images in selected categories. I hope the next update for this plugin will have this feature.
I installed this plugin at GitHub - discourse/discourse-categories-suppressed but it has some problems as follows:
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The Categories (sub) I selected it does not remove from the categories: Top, Hot… (attached image)
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Can you add a function to prevent these selected Categories from uploading images in the article?
I really hope to update and upgrade these 2 functions.
No one can help me with this part?
Those are filters and aren’t uploading anything per se. Those are just showing topics from different and real categories. Your screenshot showed a x before those. Click it and shutdown hot and what ever you want.
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You don’t understand what I mean. I still want to keep the parts in the attached image above for items like Top; Hot; New. I want this plugin (Suppressed from latest) to interfere with those parts and not just the latest part like the current one of this plugin.
No I don’t understand, because those aren’t categories in any means. Do we have a language barrier here?
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I think it’s the idea of the “suppress categories from latest” plugin to only hide the topics from the latest section. I have the impression that enhancing the function to other lists is more of a feature request than a support question.
Would you create a Feature request explaining your use case? Writing an effective feature request, a step by step guide
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