The topic list doesn't need a category column

[jack2]

Removing the category column would have the additional benefit of getting rid of the colspan=2 of pinned topics. See here:

Disabling categories

I can’t get @lubos’s solution to work with the current Discourse version. The reason is that pinned topics has: no category column, a first column with colspan=2. So when hiding td.category, the resulting table has pinned topic’s rows larger than other rows. I’ve tried to hide the second column with td:nth-child(2), but it has the drawback of hiding pinned topic’s authors (plus maybe it’ll break on mobile). Since 2014, has another solution to disable categories on small forums been implemen…