Are the following tasks allowed or will they break anything in Discourse? Rename the Site Feedback standard category and slug, and put it under another new parent category. Rename the Staff standard category and slug, and put it under another new parent category. Rename the Lounge standard …

You should be able to delete/move everything other than Uncategorized… the error you were getting on upgrade appears to be related to some recent search performance changes. There was a commit made yesterday that sounds like it might help avoid the issue you ran into (I’m not a backend developer, j…

Preseeded categories: Which ones are allowed to be altered or deleted?

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Terrapop August 21, 2020, 6:10am 3

Thanks for “connecting the dots” and yes, I made changes to all of them again (despite Uncategorized) and another upgrade worked without the same error.

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Replacing Uncategorized category Product Support	4	138	August 5, 2025
Can't modify or delete category Product Support	12	959	March 29, 2021
After upgrade, unable to load categories.json with error Bug	4	1226	March 8, 2018
Can't delete this category because it has 1 topic Product Support	11	1383	February 2, 2021
Upgrade failed: ERROR: relation "idx_regular_post_search_data" already exists Self-hosting	2	754	August 21, 2020

Preseeded categories: Which ones are allowed to be altered or deleted?

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