Homepage as "all topics" view

[luke]

I'm looking to set up a NodeBB forum, which used to be on Vanilla. I really like how on Vanilla, all the topics/threads are listed on the homepage, and how you can create a topic from the homepage via the "New Discussion" button, like this:

It still has categories in this setup, but the homepage shows all the topics. Here's a screenshot of the New Discussion page, where you have a menu where you can choose which category the topic goes in:

I really like Vanilla's setup, and I think it would be even better as an option or plugin in NodeBB.

[a_5mith]

@luke @zenkamal has done something like this already with his nutrition forum. (Although it seems a little quiet over there... :()

I believe he used the custom pages plugin, and showed all posts from one category, then created a button that opened a composer and would post into that category in the sidebar. Then used tags to differentiate the data instead of categories.

[luke]

@a_5mith Oh cool, I'll check that out.

[A Former User]

@a_5mith @luke

Am formally launching when 0.5 comes out. Pretttyyyyy excited......

By the way, very smooth transfer for your forum @a_5mith !

[a_5mith]

@zenkamal ha, thanks, only one or two small issues I had to worry about, nothing too major.
I got to the point where I could either wait a bit longer, or just get the transfer done, so I voted just do it and deal with any issues after.