# Categorisation, tagging, default appearance

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/categorisation-tagging-default-appearance/21>\
**Category:** Forum feedback\
**Created:** [April 8, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/categorisation-tagging-default-appearance/21 "2017-04-08T00:38:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/categorisation-tagging-default-appearance/21/29 "2017-05-03T14:54:54Z")

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> [@evalica](#):
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> I’ve changed “Categories” to be the default one. Let me know if this is an improvement.

Thanks @evalica for seeking feedback!

I’m not yet convinced that _categories_ by default at the home page is, or will be (when the forum gains momentum), better than _latest_.

With apologies for short notice: I have performed a reset on the top menu. Short notice because I only just learnt of the call, less than three hours from now, with the forum on the agenda.

A two-hour opportunity for participants who have worked, for the past two weeks, with categories at home page to _begin_ getting a feel for how things might be with the Discourse default for the top menu.

Please understand that today’s reset need not be a final setting. I never like making changes such as this without consultation – especially where a site has gone live – but with the call so soon, I’m squeezing it in with a hope that someone will form an opinion in the next hour or so.

(If the call is followed by a final or semi-final decision to reinstate categories by default: the change will be very easily achieved by any member of staff.)

## Screenshots, for reference

### Before (_categories_ by default)

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/opensourcedesign/original/1X/dae5779b65e65eb5566f9f8ca07494004549cdf5.png)

### After (_latest_ by default)

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/opensourcedesign/original/1X/63f205acf47f6a18511143f4eb8caebcf226b054.png)

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