I’m doing this one a bit early, as I’m traveling tomorrow, but Did you know you can unpin pinned topics?
Uh, what? That’s right, you can unpin a pinned topic. Yeah, I know, still confusing, let’s try a few screenshots!
See the pin icon? And see how there is a excerpt for the given topic (unlike the second topic). Now click the pin.
Did you see what just happened there? You just unpinned the topic… for you. Yes, that’s right, Discourse allows you to unpin topics for you, and you alone (or we staff can ultimately unpin it for everyone). Also note you can re-pin the topic by clicking it again.
Plus, you can do these from 4 different locations! The topic list (show above), viewing the topic (when at the first post)
Viewing the topic, when reading mid-way through
View the topic, when at the bottom of the discussion
Now you no longer need to see pinned topics on the category list, at the top of the Latest view (for all categories and for specific categories), etc.
Now, you are probably wondering: “What is pinned globally?”, and that’s a great question! In short, it is a way for us to place a pinned topic on the “All Categories” Topic List. Typically pinned topics only exist within their category, pinned globally topics appear outside of their category and under the All Categories listing.
So for topics that are not pinned globally, the last screenshots looks like this:
