FEATURE: only expand globally pinned topics on front page

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/routes/build-category-route.js.es6

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ export default function(filter, params) {
         noSubcategories: params && !!params.no_subcategories,
         order: topics.get('params.order'),
         ascending: topics.get('params.ascending'),
+        expandAllPinned: true
       });
 
       this.controllerFor('search').set('searchContext', model.get('searchContext'));

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/routes/build-topic-route.js.es6

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ export default function(filter, extras) {
         category: null,
         period: periods.findBy('id', periodId),
         selected: [],
+        expandGloballyPinned: true
       };
 
       var params = model.get('params');

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/discovery/topics.hbs

@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
         ascending=ascending
         bulkSelectEnabled=bulkSelectEnabled
         selected=selected
+        expandGloballyPinned=expandGloballyPinned
+        expandAllPinned=expandAllPinned
         topics=topics}}
   {{/if}}
 </div>

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/list/topic_list_item.raw.hbs

@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
     {{raw "topic-post-badges" unread=topic.unread newPosts=topic.displayNewPosts unseen=topic.unseen url=topic.lastUnreadUrl}}
   {{/if}}
 
-  {{raw "list/topic-excerpt" topic=topic}}
+  {{#if expandPinned}}
+    {{raw "list/topic-excerpt" topic=topic}}
+  {{/if}}
 </td>
 
 {{#unless controller.hideCategory}}

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/views/topic-list-item.js.es6

@@ -22,6 +22,23 @@ export default Discourse.View.extend(StringBuffer, {
     return this.get('topic.op_like_count') > 0;
   },
 
+  expandPinned: function(){
+    var pinned = this.get('topic.pinned');
+    if(!pinned){
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    if(this.get('controller.expandGloballyPinned') && this.get('topic.pinned_globally')){
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    if(this.get('controller.expandAllPinned')){
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    return false;
+  }.property(),
+
   click: function(e){
     var target = $(e.target);
 

app/serializers/topic_list_item_serializer.rb

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ class TopicListItemSerializer < ListableTopicSerializer
              :archetype,
              :last_poster_username,
              :category_id,
-             :op_like_count
+             :op_like_count,
+             :pinned_globally
 
   has_many :posters, serializer: TopicPosterSerializer, embed: :objects
   has_many :participants, serializer: TopicPosterSerializer, embed: :objects