I took a look. It’s a true monster! Just scrolling this is painful, like looking through a flattened image of a support database, with every product made into a separate category.
Most of them are records, that don’t ever require manual ordering, just alphabetical.
I’m really not here to judge. I just wonder if Discourse should even support this kind of design. A discussion forum is very different from a store or a repository database with a threaded commenting system, where Items you can comment on are not categories.
Would just leaving the category position box in the Category Settings be an acceptable compromise?
P.S. I apologize for making a clumsy MS-DOS reference. I didn’t mean to imply that a UX method is bad just because it’s old.