# User Selectable Specific Category - Default Main Page
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-specific-category-default-main-page/187525
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 20, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-specific-category-default-main-page/187525 "2021-04-20T19:22:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@TopQuark](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TopQuark)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-specific-category-default-main-page/187525/1 "2021-04-20T19:22:52Z")
The feature to have Categories as the front page is now available. In a community where users are only interested in a certain category and don’t care about the rest, is there a way to set this up in Discourse? Or possibly a mod or plugin to accomplish this?
For example, each category is a sport, e.g. basketball, football, etc. Upon logging into Discourse, the user goes to football as the default first page defined during sign up or under preferences setting.
Pls be nice. My first post. 😉
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-specific-category-default-main-page/187525/2 "2021-04-20T19:59:30Z")
Welcome @TopQuark!
Check out [GitHub - pfaffman/discourse-custom-homepage-for-groups: Discourse theme component to change home page based on user's primary group · GitHub](https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-custom-homepage-for-groups), which I suppose I should make a post in #Customization > Theme for. A client combines it with [GitHub - literatecomputing/discourse-ucf-group-assignment: Update group membership based on user custom field · GitHub](https://github.com/literatecomputing/discourse-ucf-group-assignment) to allow users to choose a value in a user custom field which automatically assigns them to the group which the theme component then uses to select their home page.
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### Author:  [@TopQuark](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TopQuark)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-specific-category-default-main-page/187525/3 "2021-04-20T20:16:46Z")
^^^ This is great. A quick look shows this is what I am looking for. 👍
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-specific-category-default-main-page/187525/4 "2021-04-23T04:06:59Z")
I have discussed with @sam and @eviltrout an end state where users select just the stuff they want to see (collection of tags / categories) as “their” feed, as in `/custom`.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 6:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-selectable-specific-category-default-main-page/187525/5 "2021-04-23T06:46:40Z")
We already have the `?tracking` path for this:
`https://meta.discourse.org/unread?f=tracked` → unread in categories you track and topic you track and tags you track
`https://meta.discourse.org/new?f=tracked` → new
`https://meta.discourse.org/?f=tracked` → everything
The support for the special param is there in core, there is just no UI to expose it. We only expose it in “teams”.