# Poll: how do you like discourse so far? **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [April 11, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33 "2017-04-11T13:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/1 "2017-04-11T13:50:00Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/2 "2017-04-11T14:00:47Z")
Reasons for my vote: Pros: - I like the social features and integration with other sites (github especially) - It’s modern and has lots of useful features Slightly less than pros: - I didn’t find it particularly obvious what to do when I first got to the page - Finding documentation (like how to make a poll) was difficult (lots of googling before I found a blog post with some examples) No real cons! ---
**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/3 "2017-04-11T21:50:30Z")
> [@pieper](#): > > - I didn’t find it particularly obvious what to do when I first got to the page I added `Click "New Topic" to get started!` to the first sentence in the welcome banner to maybe help. ---
**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/4 "2017-04-12T06:08:41Z")
What do you think about making the Category list the default view ([https://discourse.slicer.org/categories](https://discourse.slicer.org/categories))? I find it easier to get started from a list of categories than from a flat list of latest posts. ---
**Author:** ![fedorov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/fedorov/32/14_2.png) [@fedorov](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/fedorov)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/5 "2017-04-12T11:45:55Z")
Personally, I like the list of latest topic, gives you quick view instead of having to check each category. ---
**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/6 "2017-04-12T12:31:23Z")
I think Unread is the one I will end up using most. I don’t know how much traffic there is going to be, but I suspect I’ll try to read it all. ---
**Author:** ![fedorov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/fedorov/32/14_2.png) [@fedorov](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/fedorov)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/7 "2017-04-12T13:37:08Z")
On the second look, I agree with Andras suggestion. I was looking at it from the phone, and it looks a bit different, but on the desktop it looks better. ---
**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/8 "2017-04-12T14:14:26Z")
It seems other many other sites end up using category view as homepage, too. On Mozilla’s discourse site they analyzed site stats and it turned out to be a more welcoming homepage ([https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/categories-as-homepage/280/24](https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/categories-as-homepage/280/24)). It’s nice that with these tools you can make decisions based on data, not just on based on beliefs. I’ve moved the category view to be the default view. If we want to change this, the setting is available here: [https://discourse.slicer.org/admin/site\_settings/category/all\_results?filter=top\_menu](https://discourse.slicer.org/admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=top_menu) ---
**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/9 "2017-04-12T20:34:18Z")
I don’t have a strong preference, but personally I always click Latest. ---
**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/10 "2017-04-12T20:35:21Z")
Latest is shown, too: left column is Categories, right column is Latest. ---
**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/poll-how-do-you-like-discourse-so-far/33/11 "2017-04-12T20:37:07Z")
Not on phone. Not a big deal though.