Remove the "New Topic" button from forum home page

[chromorphous]

@pert

I moved your topic to an appropriate forum category.

In the future, please take some time to pick the forum category that best suits the subject of your topic. There is an "About the _____ category" topic at the top of each category that explains its purpose.

This is an important part of responsible forum usage, as explained in the "How to get the best out of this forum" guide. The guide contains a lot of other useful information. Please read it.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

I keep seeing this response over and over in this forum.

Instead of blaming the new users, why doesn't someone just remove the "New Topic" button from the https://forum.arduino.cc/ page?

The only reason users are posting in the unspecified category is because there is a big button on the main page that says "New Topic," which posts directly to the Unspecified topic. Just remove that button already...

[Delta_G]

When you use that button you still have to choose a category. If people would read the selections instead of just grabbing the one at the top we wouldn't have that problem either.

[ianthewrong]

You split it off from my topic. I know how to change topics. I've done it before. In my case I simply forgot. I'm sorry.

[pert]

@chromorphous

"New Topic," which posts directly to the Unspecified topic.

To elaborate on what @Delta_G said already, this is incorrect. When you click that button, no category is selected:

If the user attempts to publish the topic without explicitly selecting a category from that "category" menu, the forum software will block the publishing with a "An error occurred: Category can't be blank" dialog:

So the only way someone can publish a topic in the Uncategorized category is by selecting that category from the menu:

We created the Uncategorized category because previously when people arbitrarily chose the first category on the list, the miscategorized topics ended up in the IDE 1.x category where it was less likely that the moderators would spot them since they were mixed in there with topics that are actually about Arduino IDE 1.x.