# URL to latest topic in a category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-to-latest-topic-in-a-category/32263
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 18, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-to-latest-topic-in-a-category/32263 "2015-08-18T18:42:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@mr8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mr8)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-to-latest-topic-in-a-category/32263/1 "2015-08-18T18:42:38Z")
Would it be possible to have a URL that would automatically redirect to the last topic in a category?
e.g.:
`https://meta.discourse.org/c/releases/last-topic`
or
`https://meta.discourse.org/c/releases/last`
would automatically redirect to (in this case) : `https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-5/30609` or whatever is the latest topic in that category?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-to-latest-topic-in-a-category/32263/2 "2015-08-18T18:45:18Z")
What would be the use case for this? I’m trying to think of reasons why I would want to be redirected to a random topic, as you have no idea really what topic it will take you to.
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### Author:  [@mr8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mr8)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-to-latest-topic-in-a-category/32263/3 "2015-08-18T18:58:22Z")
An example would be linking to topic for the latest/current version of discourse (above example) without having to change the link for each new release. You could simply use the url `https://meta.discourse.org/c/releases/last` or something like that and always have it go to the most current/latest topic in that category.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-to-latest-topic-in-a-category/32263/4 "2015-08-18T19:01:29Z")
So by latest, you mean the last topic created, not necessarily the most recent topic to have activity.
Am I understanding that properly?
As version 1.3 may have a reply after 1.4 is announced. You’d still want to link to go to 1.4’s topic
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### Author:  [@mr8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mr8)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-to-latest-topic-in-a-category/32263/5 "2015-08-18T19:02:28Z")
Yeah, fixed the title to reflect that!
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-to-latest-topic-in-a-category/32263/6 "2025-12-04T11:36:55Z")