What is the "hot" category topic sorting option?

[anon73664359]

Continuing the discussion from Discourse Version 2.9:

What will this feature be like? How will it work? What does it do? I couldn’t find a dedicated topic for it.

Also, I’m extremely curious as to why it’s being added to Discourse…

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[Falco]

Basically Discourse Hot Topics

[anon73664359]

I can’t wait to see that feature natively baked into Discourse!

Is it already available in a beta version of Discourse?

[JackALaing]

I can’t seem to find the hot sorting option in the forum settings and I’m on the latest version. Was this feature removed?

[Falco]

It was never implemented in core (albeit it may still be on our roadmap) and the plugin that added it is deprecated.

[JackALaing]

Ah, I mistook the “focus” list for a changelog of that version.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

It is implemented now!

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