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Proposing new categories

qgil

For now there is only a #ask-here category for all questions. Tags will help categorizing as well.

The idea here is to avoid a skeleton of categories before knowing how many questions are we going to get about which topics, and which areas will be well covered with contributors answering questions.

If we start seeing a good volume of activity related to certain area (i.e. #bots) then we could spin off a category. Or if the maintainers of a certain area (i.e. #bots :smiley:) say that they have decided to organize their developer support here, then we can also arrange for that.

Do you find this approach reasonable? As with many details of this pilot, we are applying common sense and improvisation interchangeably. :wink:

addshore

I agree. I think it makes sense to avoid having any more categories until we have clear needs for them.

Tags will work well until then!

qgil

4 posts were split to a new topic: Creating tags by typing them?

Tgr

From the admin guide:

Don’t create too many initial categories, as you can overwhelm your audience. You can always add more categories, and easily bulk recategorize topics later. It’s better to figure out the organization as you go rather than assuming you’ll get it all right from the beginning (hint: you won’t).