Creating a Mega Forum

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@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 project with Discourse?

Well, we’re considering this feature request:

Restrict tags to specific categories

Would it be possible to restrict tags to specific categories? This would be applicable where a tag list is only relevant in certain categories. For implementation I’m imagining an ‘allow tags in category’ flag in category settings.

Which could essentially be used to achieve one extra level of categorisation. However…

@TeacherMac

Another option could be a contained multi-forum with a common shared database containing all the members information, profiles and subscription linked to the database for each of the forum categories, it’s sub-categories, forums, sub-forums all contents and post threads.

I think this would probably suit you much better. In our experience, some compartmentalisation is good for communities, for the same reason we sub-divide countries up in states & cities.