# Discourse Category Refactoring

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627>\
**Category:** Open Source Design meta\
**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627 "2018-04-18T13:34:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![elioqoshi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/elioqoshi/32/706_2.png) [@elioqoshi](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/elioqoshi)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/1 "2018-04-18T13:34:35Z")

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Hi there,

After discussing with other folks on Signal, we were thinking about reordering and tidying the categories on our Discourse here as right now there are categories where the last post has been months ago and we should consider distilling those.

Due to that, I’d propose following categories (and subcategories)

**Events**

- Local Meetups
- Summit
- Conferences

**Design Lounge**

- Communication
- Visual Identity
- Interaction Design
- Usability

**Job Board**

**Meta**

- Core Team _(Private)_

This would tidy discussions and make for a nicer experience I believe. Tags could be used for specific projects which don’t deserve a category (like fosdem2019).

There were concerns about the Summit having its own subcategory, as it might not be ideal from a user’s view. However I think that having all topics in one place is convenient for the people organizing it.

Please give us your feedback so we can implemented the agreed upon changes.

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**Author:** ![simonv3](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/simonv3/32/15_2.png) [@simonv3](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/simonv3)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/2 "2018-04-18T15:47:47Z")

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I like this!

I don’t think “core team” needs to be under meta.

Only people who are in private categories see them, so with all the categories being more nested, I don’t see an issue with private categories being on the first level, especially because if you’re in a private category that is more likely to be of interest to you.

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**Author:** ![elioqoshi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/elioqoshi/32/706_2.png) [@elioqoshi](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/elioqoshi)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/3 "2018-04-19T10:39:11Z")

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I agree with that as well, sounds better.

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**Author:** ![pdurbin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/pdurbin/32/3478_2.png) [@pdurbin](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/pdurbin)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/4 "2018-04-20T01:20:26Z")

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The proposed reorgnization sounds fine to me.

> [@elioqoshi](#):
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> After discussing with other folks on Signal

Is the Signal conversation only available to a few people or to everybody? The “Chat” link at [http://opensourcedesign.net](http://opensourcedesign.net) still points to IRC, which I keep an eye on (it’s pretty quiet).

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**Author:** ![elioqoshi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/elioqoshi/32/706_2.png) [@elioqoshi](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/elioqoshi)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/5 "2018-04-20T11:44:30Z")

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It’s my fault I use Signal a bit too much then it should be for. We have a Core group chat for well, Core things. It’s not encouraged to discuss broader issues there, so hence I brought this discussion here.

I’d like to hear more thoughts from others, especially [@core-group](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/groups/core-group) on this matter as well

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**Author:** ![pdurbin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/pdurbin/32/3478_2.png) [@pdurbin](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/pdurbin)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/6 "2018-04-21T01:43:20Z")

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Thanks for bringing this matter into the open.

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**Author:** ![elioqoshi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/elioqoshi/32/706_2.png) [@elioqoshi](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/elioqoshi)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/7 "2018-04-22T16:27:35Z")

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I don’t see much traction here, I’d suggest waiting a few more days before implementing a new category tree.

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**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/8 "2018-04-25T16:58:38Z")

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> [@elioqoshi](#):
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> Design Lounge
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> Communication  
> Visual Identity  
> Interaction Design  
> Usability

I’d like to keep “usability and research” rather than only “usability”

Everything else seems fine to me.

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**Author:** ![elioqoshi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/elioqoshi/32/706_2.png) [@elioqoshi](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/elioqoshi)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/9 "2018-04-29T08:11:50Z")

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Makes Total sense.

@simonv3 @jdittrich would you be able to do necessary changes?

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**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/10 "2018-04-29T13:09:10Z")

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OK, moved them (some things diverge still)

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**Author:** ![elioqoshi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/elioqoshi/32/706_2.png) [@elioqoshi](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/elioqoshi)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/11 "2018-04-30T08:05:28Z")

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Thanks @jdittrich. There are still some differences.

Local Meetups (not Local meetups)  
Conferences (not conferences)

Lounge should be merged into Design and be called Design Lounge to serve as the main category. Also uncategorised should go there I suppose.

Open Source Design Meta should be renamed to just Meta.

Basically let’s also use Title Case for the category titles. Keeping distinct colors for those and their subcategories is also important.

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**Author:** ![jan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jan/32/8_2.png) [@jan](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/12 "2019-02-08T12:26:34Z")

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@elioqoshi you said this in [Request for a NYC sub-category in /Events/Local Meetups/ - #6 by elioqoshi](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/request-for-a-nyc-sub-category-in-events-local-meetups/588/6)

> [@Request for a NYC sub-category in /Events/Local Meetups/](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/request-for-a-nyc-sub-category-in-events-local-meetups/588/6):
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> It doesn’t really make sense to me from an information architecture. There are local meetups but also specific city chapters on the same level of hierarchy although latter should be nested. Having the Summit and Conferences Subcategory beneath seems a bit like clutter to me.
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> Having a Local Meetups category on its own and city chapters as subcategories looks like a more elegant solution I’d say.

So the structure could be like this:

**Events**

- FOSDEM
- Open Source Design Summit
- FOSSASIA
- Open Tech Summit
- …

**Local Meetups**

- NYC
- Tirana
- Berlin
- …

I like it, and it’s basically like in the FSFE Discourse at [https://community.fsfe.org](https://community.fsfe.org) – but it’s different to what you originally proposed in the first post at [Discourse Category Refactoring](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627)

So – I’m good with splitting up Events and Local Meetups and would go ahead and do it, just asking to confirm. 🙂

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**Author:** ![elioqoshi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/elioqoshi/32/706_2.png) [@elioqoshi](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/elioqoshi)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-category-refactoring/627/13 "2019-02-19T16:52:08Z")

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Yep, that’s indeed something which I had in mind! Untill OSD gets so big we have too many conferences to list like that of course 😛