Cleaning up subcategories

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I’m doing a round of forum cleanup this week. Old or unused subcategories will be removed, and some duplicates are merged.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of changes. I’ll update as I go:

Help category:
Removed some old subcategories, threads are simply in “Help” parent:

  • Old FAQ
  • Coding (since almost all questions are about Coding, also hasn’t been used since 2020)
  • IPFS (since all questions are about IPFS)

Added new subcategories, for topics with 3+ in the last 20 posts:

  • Desktop
  • Networking (for NAT and peering questions hopefully this takes off)

Working Groups category:
Removed some completely empty subcategories:

  • Helia WG (activity is in the helia github repo, or Help > Helia)
  • Implementers WG (activity is in various implementations’ github repos)
  • Decentralized Data WG

Renamed some categories:

  • Tutorials → Docs & Tutorials
  • Events WG → Events
  • Meta & Site Feedback → Site Feedback

Feel free to suggest any other changes.

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The low-hanging fruit is done. Some open questions:

  • Working Groups and Communities and Ecosystem and Usage: These two categories don’t feel right for how they’re being used today. Most of the implementations and tools have discussions in their own Github repos, and other WGs have their own categories (for example, Protocol WG → Protocol category). Maybe we need to refactor them? Possible categories:

    • Share Your Project (for people to show off their new projects)
    • Ecosystem and Use Cases (“Usage” might be attracting a lot of the Help questions)

  • Lobby / Uncategorized posts I think we do want to a Lobby of some sort around for general posts. Right now, it is also the default place for uncategorized posts to land. Do we want to keep open and messy but, or turn on the setting that requires users to choose a category before posting?

Any thoughts @admins and @moderators?

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Yeah this is a good idea!

I would give this a try.