The procedure for reordering categories as they appear on the landing page for logged in users, as set out in the documentation here, seems not to be working. I am unsure whether this is likely due to a recent beta update, or some related setting I recently and unwittingly played with, but would much appreciate any suggustion to get category display ordering priorities working again. Per the posted procedure, I have enabled fixed category positions and fixed category positions on create and have assigned numeric priorities such that my most preferred category appears above my less preferred category in the reorder categories dialog, and I have clicked the save button. Clearing the browser cache, closing and reopening my browser, logging back in (as administrator), and checking the category order showing in the reorder categories dialog shows the settings were indeed saved - however still posts from the less preferred category always display first, completely filling the landing page display by default when the site is first opened by a logged in user - even though it has much less recent posts than the preferred category, and much less activity generally. As a result, anyone visiting the site/checking in would conclude at a glance that nothing much has happened there for a long time - unless they happen to be one of the very few who are up to speed with the way posts are organized by Discourse into categories, and that they would first need to click on a different category heading in the left sidebar, in order to see anything recent that is relevant to them.

[图片] Paul_King: default_categories_muted This is still the most suspicious one. I think muting a parent category can result in the subcategories being muted too. Are you sure no category is muted in your preferences? If you filter latest for one of the subcategories that are missing on the unfiltered latest, which tracking state does the dropdown show? [Screenshot_20251204_135904_Firefox] [图片] Paul_King: There is not supposed to be anything posted directly to the master categories themselves, and to reduce the scope for this (as this kept happening), both master categories were set to ‘muted’, so the option to post to them directly was hidden. I don’t think muting is the right way to enforce that. I’d try to use the category security settings for that. Only allowing reading on the parent category, but reading, replying, and creating in the subcategories should work to prevent replies to the parent. You might also want to enable default_subcategory_on_read_only_category. (I am not sure it matters that much now as the new topic button is no longer disabled on categories where you are not allowed to post.) Don’t forget to use the option to change the preference for existing users when you remove the categories from the default muted setting.

[图片] Moin: [图片] Paul_King: default_categories_muted This is still the most suspicious one. I think muting a parent category can result in the subcategories being muted too. Are you sure no category is muted in your preferences? If you filter latest for one of the subcategories that are missing on the unfiltered latest, which tracking state does the dropdown show? [Screenshot_20251204_135904_Firefox] Thanks @Moin I have reset the default_categories_muted setting to blank/defaults, with no change. The tracking state on the filtered latest for PRIVATE/Architects Forum subcategory (which is the subcategory that does not display by default, but that I want to display by default) is ‘watching’ [image]

To recap, after much trial and error, it seems there are absolutely no administrator settings that will cause the latest topics in ANY subcategory, let alone the most active subcategory to appear first by default Old topics, in a seldom used subcategory currenly are all that appear. The ‘Latest’ filter is not working at all - even when I manually filter for the correct subcategory Clicking ‘Latest’ brings truely ancient posts to the top of the list, and with the posts below that appearing in completely random order - neither in the order of the first post date, or most recent post date. Positively embarrasing for me! Is this perhaps evidence of some sort of corruption in my database? What am I missing here?

[图片] Paul_King: Clicking ‘Latest’ brings truely ancient posts to the top of the list, and with the posts below that appearing in completely random order - neither in the order of the first post date, or most recent post date. The /latest I see is ordered by activity. Any chance there is some kind of parameter influencing the order of latest? Something like ?order=posters

[图片] Paul_King: Instead, no matter what I do, the landing page now shows old posts in the ‘PUBLIC > Open Forum’ category. This is a stretch but have you by any chance changed this setting for that category: [CleanShot 2025-12-09 at 10.01.09@2x] It truly is the last thing I can think about.

[图片] Moin: ?order=posters Thanks @Chapoi That is a very good question - but I cannot for the life of me even find that setting under the ‘Appearance’ tab. A settings search for ‘topic list’ also elicits nothing for me.

Oh sorry, it is a category setting. So go to the category tab via here: Choose a category > click wrench [CleanShot 2025-12-09 at 10.14.53@2x] And then to the settings tab: [CleanShot 2025-12-09 at 10.15.38@2x] And scroll down But if you don’t know it, the chances you’ve changed it are slim :slightly_frowning_face:

Thanks @Moin Where would I find/check/edit the ?order=posters parameter? I found nothing obviously related by searching admin settings

[图片] Paul_King: Where would I find/check/edit the ?order=posters parameter? I think just in the URL when you are on the /latest page. So on meta it is https://meta.discourse.org/latest and shouldn’t be anything else for example

I sometimes have something like this sticking at the URL, without any configuration. It can happen, for example, after clicking one of the column headings in the topic list.

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JammyDodger 2025 年12 月 9 日 16:04 36

有点不好意思，我忘了我把它放在那里了。确实解释了为什么我用其他类别无法重现。

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