Is it possible to set a topic under many categories?

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Hello :waving_hand:t2:

I’m curious to know what are the technical limitations for this.

An example of my use case would be:

  • a topic titled “Local cuisines from Location A are generally saltier compared to local cuisines from Location B”
  • where Location A and Location B are category names
  • there is a poll with options Agree, Neutral and Disagree
  • being able to save the topic under both categories allows syncing of conversations and votes between both categories from day 1 (or hopefully within a few days of topic creation), instead of a reactive approach of only merging duplicate topics after the issue went viral)
  • a cool codename for this could be anti-cross-categories-topic-duplication-feature/plugin lolz :joy:

My first thought was to create a middle table in db. Lolz so low level :joy:

Probably some better solutions could be

  • add a model class reference or association
  • index a list of topics associated with a category in db and call a method to bundle those topics when calling @category.all_published_topics or something

So yeah just wanted to know if there’s a strict technical no-no regarding this issue before I dive in deeper :cold_face: