Thanks for the input, everyone. I suppose I can buy that categorization is more outdated and less necessary than we may have assumed, but I still struggle with how to marry this concept with what we’re trying to do. Let me try this:
What’s the smartest way to use Discourse to set up a community that offers discussion for regular users of a product and separate discussion for developers of that product? We don’t want these audiences to be so separate that we have two different forums on separate URLs (the developers in particular may provide value in the normal sections), but we don’t want the two audiences so intermingled that they have to wonder when scanning through the latest posts whether a given topic is “for” them.