We’ve rolled out an update to the Meta Branded theme homepage to make it easier to find conversations and get a better sense of what’s happening across the community. This builds on the existing latest topics view so you can spot active conversations, upcoming events, and who’s contributing.
If you’ve had a chance to poke around, we’d love to hear what you think.
If you’re still not seeing the new homepage and you’re using the Meta Branded theme, head over to your interface preferences and make sure Default Home Page is set to (default).
Hmm. I definitely like how this looks but the videos being in my face feel weird. I don’t think a lot of people are coming to Meta to watch webinar replays or whatever else so I feel like we could benefit from more topics or something else and putting those off to the right side block below top users.
Maybe you have changed the homepage in your preferences? https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface Is “Default Home Page” (default) for you? I set mine to latest a few years ago when someone accidentally changed the homepage on Meta to /categories
Thanks for the feedback! We thought it would be helpful to surface educational content around community building for folks who might not otherwise come across it. It’s at the bottom to keep it out of the main flow, but we’ll keep an eye on how it feels and adjust it if others aren’t getting any value out of it.
It’s not something we’re planning to package up for reuse at the moment. The theme is pretty specific to Meta and is still evolving. Feel free to test it out here and let us know if you spot any issues.
It should show the same layout for both anon and logged in users. I would double check this setting as @Moin suggested:
Some important context to keep in mind with these changes is that we’re trying to make Meta appealing to a wider audience because historically it’s been heavily focused on development and developers. So part of this includes adding a wider variety of content that could also be interesting to admins and community managers.
If you’re still not seeing the new homepage and you’re using the Meta Branded theme, head over to your interface preferences and make sure Default Home Page is set to (default).
