Please consider this a feasibility study for a project I would like to implement asap. I need to verify that Discourse is the resources I need for the creation of a “Super Forum”: the basics outlined below. I would appreciate any suggestions, thoughts, and/or criticism you have that will enable the…

Bear in mind that Discourse supports only 2 levels of category: category and sub-categories.

Thanks for taking the time to respond Régis. I did not come across any examples of Sub-categories so I thank you for bringing it to my attention. So I’m limited to multiple Categories each of which can be the parent of many Sub-categories and each Sub-category contains as many Topics as needed: Th…

[image] TeacherMac: So I’m limited to multiple Categories each of which can be the parent of many Sub-categories and each Sub-category contains as many Topics as needed: This would quickly become unwieldy and would be abandoned by the users. Are there any further options available for my projec…

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Mittineague (Mittineague) May 14, 2016, 7:59am 4

It sounds like the amount of compartmentalization you’re describing would be unwieldy no matter how you go about it.

But perhaps Tagging would work?

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