I thought this was a much more neat way of separating out conversations. You can clearly see broad categories for a mix of things, and you also get a list of the threads with most recent posts (like what we have now).
It would be really cool to do something similar here. As the site is growing, I am frequently using the category selectors more often, but sometimes it feels more tedious than it should be to filter like this. After I saw the above Discourse site layout, I thought doing something similar here would be super helpful.
What do you think? Any idea how we could replicate something like this? Our existing top-level categories would probably be fine to show on a left sidebar like the one shown above.
Indeed, I’d also like this. Mozilla e.g. has a similar nice layout, which looks much more like “traditional” forum software with many categories: https://discourse.mozilla.org/
Not sure this would fit here, because we do have not so strictly separated categories, I guess.
I’m wondering now – would an “Announcements” category make sense to add there too? Sort of like announce@lists.fp.o list, except… on Discourse. A read-only section like that would be awesome for sharing project news more widely.
Could we change the default view to categories on the left with latest threads on the right?
I’ve thought about this for the last week or two. I see the same threads for the last month on the right sidebar that Discourse categorized as “top threads”. I’m not sure we are active enough yet for posts to regularly churn. I feel like I’m missing out on new conversations in other parts of the forum and I would notice more if latest replies and topics appeared in the sidebar.
@jwf Sorry, I missed that this wasn’t resolved. Changed to Categories and Latest Topics now. (They’re not next to each other in the admin interface here.)
A read-only section like that would be awesome for sharing project news more widely.
Great idea!