Home Page is a Confusing Mess

I don't know what's available, but the tags you did add to my thread about treatment of Sigma DNG, These tags could be used with 'LIKE' or 'CONTAINS' requests to be selected based on user search/filter string.

Or maybe these tags could be selected from a list of tags to see all the relevant categories/threads that have them.

I don't know if all this is possible with the framework used here, but it could be useful, no? More advanced than the simple search tool, and it could help render lighter categories and threads pages.

This could be a section of the user parameters. Kind of no param: everything visible, tags selected: site permanently filtered by that...

As an example, I could check only Sigma, Panasonic, Leica in equipment, then everything related to technique, treatments, and general discussions, and on a daily basis, see only these in the categories and threads.

I created a thread maybe one or two hours ago, and it was floating outside any categories, and you did put it back in the Sigma category, where I wanted to have it :-).

I should probably know the answer by now, but I notice that if you click on the top level "threads" option, there are posts with brightly coloured tags eg "Weekly photos". If you click on a tag, you get a query that displays all the other posts that share the same tag.

Is this default automatic behaviour or does someone have to add the tags to each post? DPR seems to do automatic tagging (and often gets it wrong).

You've not misunderstood, it's indeed for prototyping. A restart of your browser and your edits are gone.
I shared my input just as an example of what it could look like.

Indeed. If we make some CSS that is deemed favourable over the current layout, it would need to be incorporated in the site's/forum's stylesheets.
Reading the Misago docs there's "themes" functionality and future plans for "styles".

Thanks :) I like your additions to the categories view. Be aware though some of your rules like the #333 background colour of the first list child item and 20px top padding also apply to other lists. e.g. the Threads view.

That's the cascading bit of CSS 😁

When you run your own site, you should (in theory at least) understand the html and class structure. When hacking another site, you have to work it out painfully. Always causes trouble! Especially for me, I'm not very good at it. When I ran our corporate sites they tended to remain the same for a decade, our little web team didn't get enough opportunities to practise.

By the way, my hacks seem to still be working. The only thing I haven't tried yet is a full re-boot. EDIT: I think I understand now. It's a bit weird, but it looks like I managed to open a second instance of Firefox and it was remembering the hacks for me when I closed the main instance. Or something like that. The hacks vanished after I closed both instances. Good job I recorded the code 😁

EDIT: I think I have targeted the code a bit better with another tweak:

CSS
.page-categories .list-group-item-first h4.media-heading {
font-size: 26px;
}
.page-categories .list-group-item:first-child {
background-color:#333;
}
.list-group-item:first-child .last-poster-avatar, .list-group-item:first-child .divider, .list-group-item:first-child .category-last-thread-poster, .list-group-item:first-child .thread-title, .list-group-item:first-child .category-last-thread-date{
display:none!important;
}
.last-poster-avatar img {
height:24px; width:24px;
}
a.thread-title {
font-size:10px;
}
.category-last-thread-poster a {
font-size:10px;
}
.category-last-thread-date a {
font-size:10px;
}
.list-group-item-first .category-main .media-left .material-icon {
font-size: 18px;
height: 18px;
line-height: 18px;
width: 18px;
}
.list-group-category .list-group-item {
padding-left: 26px;
}
.list-group-category .list-group-item:first-child .category-main {
padding-left: 8px;
}
article div.exifOverlay {
color: var(--darkreader-neutral-text)
}
.subcategories-list {
padding-bottom:15px;padding-top:10px;
}
.list-group-item {
padding-top:20px;
}

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1. Click "Threads" at the very top

See this:

1. Click one of the coloured tag buttons (in this case "Nikon") and get this view:

Pretty handy, but how did the posts get tagged? I don't see a tagging mechanism in the editor and not all posts seem to be tagged.

I like dprevived.com community but also hate the Home page design.

Everything gets tagged automatically? And just the brands? No room for tagging things with any text? It would be quite good if it were possible to, say, tag a post with "darktable", then search by the darktable tag to get a list of all the posts about darktable from any forum at any time. Kind of like tagging blog posts.

Change it to how you like it using the Dark Reader plugin

We can have 2 different landing pages for "Categories" and let users decide themselves which one to use... one can be what Alan likes and one more along the lines of classic DPReview or phpBB forums... not EITHER OR - but BOTH options at once ..

Ah, fake tags 😁😁😁

You may find my recent post Here is an Alternate "Home Page" interesting.

Forgot to thank you for that, Bill. I made my own quick links page based on a cut down version of that:

whisperingcat.co.uk/wp/dprevived-shortcuts/

I keep it on my bookmarks bar