This poll shows majority support, as does reading the comments on this thread.
Right - but for the time being, given the current number of users using Discourse, it makes more sense to use the categories view than keep the discussions view while waiting what will probably be a long time for a decision on multi-Discourse. I wouldnāt support making the change to different Discourse instances without lots of thought and discussion, because its a huge change. This isnāt.
From what Iāve read, quite a lot of thought has been put into the decision. Iāve only just joined the discussion, so youāll have to forgive me if Iāve got the timeline wrong - but as it stands, thereās a number of arguments in favour of defaulting to the categories view, and not many in favour of not.
The ordering of the categories issue seems like a rather minor one, which while may be an inconvenience, doesnāt make it necessary to throw the baby out with the bathwater. As I said above, the categories view isnāt currently perfect, but itās illogical to not switch to a better default view because itās not perfect.
Thereās also something very wrong with Community IT if people are overriding what the module owner has decided, without their approval.
Letās not kid ourselves here, Discourse currently gets a handful of users, and is a testbed to see if it could get properly adopted by Mozilla. No decision here is a huge UX decision. If weāre going to get bogged down in mindless bureaucracy, Discourse is going to get nowhere within Mozilla.
Upon seeking out as many Discourse installations as I can find, it looks like most do use the default discussions view. Despite this, there are still a number of good arguments for changing to the categories view by default.
If thereās any doubt surrounding that, let me add another argument in favour: most Discourse installations are centered around one topic. Mozilla on the other hand is a very diverse community, and some things (Reps involvement in Mozfest) have nothing to do with others (Community IT discussions). Is this an argument for multi-Discourse? Maybe, but thatās not the discussion weāre having right now. As it stands, this Discourse installation has a number of very diverse discussions happening on it, and so flooding a new user with all of them, when theyāre almost certainly looking for only one thing, doesnāt make a whole lot of sense.
Why, aside from it being the default?
Iām really not sure what youāre saying here. What broad statements have I made? Iāve merely posted my interpretation of things posted in public. Am I not allowed to have an opinion in public if it disagrees with yours?