Why the Start Here categories exist, and what they are not for — one year on I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below.
Collecting what is known about Start in one place, because it is currently spread across a category, two tag pages and a thread that is hard to find.
This is a summary rather than new work, and I have attributed each part to where I found it.
On Start: the maintained page in the documentation commons covers the general case with citations and a review date, which is more reliable than any reply here including this one.
A methods point on Start rather than a substantive one: if the comparison is not like for like, the difference you are measuring is the difference in method.
Muting is under-used here. A category you mute stops appearing in Latest for you, and you can unmute it in a second. Most long-term members read four or five categories and mute the rest.
Genuinely open to being wrong about this one.
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What this community means by "a source", in practical terms
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Follow-up: What this community means by "a source", in practical terms
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What "marked as solution" means and who gets to mark it
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Here for the analytics and not much else — one year on
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Long-time reader, first-time poster
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[2026 update] Scheduled maintenance and what will be unavailable
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Why we ask for units every single time, with three examples of what goes wrong — what changed since
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