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 …

Differences beween Categories and sub-Categories?

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RichardTE (RichardTE) September 10, 2025, 1:32pm 4

These are both good answers to my question about Categories and sub-Categories.

Thank you, @manuel and @Moin!

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Differences beween Categories and sub-Categories?

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