Top page default timeframe - suggestion - apply to categories

[markersocial]

I think it might be better if the ‘top_page_default_timeframe’ setting affected the top period for all categories also by default. Then have the individual category setting ‘Default Top Period’ set to use ‘default’ by default (it currently uses ‘All Time’ as the default). Allowing admin’s to still override the default for each category if they want.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

@markersocial

I think it might be better if the ‘top_page_default_timeframe’ setting affected the top period for all categories also by default

Oh, it doesn’t automatically inherit that setting per category? That’s a borderline bug maybe?

[markersocial]

Yeah, can confirm it’s not inherited. Default for ‘top_page_default_timeframe’ is ‘yearly’ and each individual category is set to use ‘All Time’ by default.

[Shishir_Sarkar]

Can somebody confirm, whats the use-case of Default Top Period in categories table.

[Moin]

When you visit a category here at Meta, in most cases the default topic list is latest. But you can always also choose top in the navigation. Depending on the default top period, you then see the top topics of different time frames.
theme will, for example, show you the top of all time, while support shows the top topics of the last month. The top support topics of all time would probably be less interesting because the topics were solved long ago. But for themes, it does not matter when they were created; that’s why all time makes sense here.