Thanks for posting this, I was about to add a note about this functionality.
Sorry for the confusion. I made a design error in changing the default behavior. I'll change this back soon.
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Latest Activity sorts by most recent post (where post-edits also includes some system actions, like manually closing topics and editing titles, tags, categories, and text), and was default sort before.
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Latest Topic sorts by topic creation date.
I'm changing the default behavior back to the one you are probably familiar, with "Latest Activity" the default.
Thoughts for the future:
- In a while, I'll add controls to
https://community.rstudio.com/u/{USERNAME}/preferences/interface >> Default Home Page as well.
- This menu might expand to something like "Sort by Topic - Only show unsolved & un-replied"