What is the purpose of “archetype” field in latest.json?
There’s three types of archetypes in Discourse by default.
and they refer to the type of the topic.
regular: it’s just a normal topic like the one you made here.
private_message: the topic is a private message
banner: the topic has been marked as a global banner.
In latest.json you will only see archetype: "banner" if the topic in that list has been marked as a banner. Everything else will be regular because that list does not include any PMs.
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