I’m building my first Discourse forum. The software and its community are incredible, and it’s a lot to take in. Just for edification, what are some differences between a Category and a sub-Category, internally or otherwise? Beyond the organizing function that we see, and the definition that a sub-…

Access settings have a hierarchical structure where sub-categories cannot be more permissive than their parent categories. You will get an error message when you attempt a configuration that goes against this: [image]

Usually, when you look at all topics from a category, you also see the topics in the subcategories. For example, when you look at #announcements, you also see the topics in #announcements:blog. Of course, you can use the subcategory filter and select “no subcategories” to exclude them or change the …

These are both good answers to my question about Categories and sub-Categories. Thank you, @manuel and @Moin !

类别和子类别之间的区别？

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manuel (Manuel Kostka) 2025年九月10日 12:49 2

访问设置具有分层结构，子类别不能比其父类别拥有更多权限。当您尝试进行违反此规则的配置时，会收到错误消息：

話題		回覆	觀看
Create new category or subcategory? what's the diff? Support	0	398	2020年十二月30日
Add a sub-category to a sub-category Support	6	1951	2022年四月21日
How many subcategory levels Discourse allows? Support	1	982	2015年三月11日
Shouldn't a category be the mother of all subcategories? Feature	2	747	2018年七月24日
Can users post at the parent level if there are sub-categories? Support	3	832	2018年二月11日

类别和子类别之间的区别？

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