Hello Discourse team, I run a community that would greatly benefit from allowing more than one level of subcategory (e.g., sub-subcategories). Our use case is for a community forum and the current structure is restrictive because we have few sub categories to be created upto 5. If 3 or even 5 leve…

How to enable (3+ level) nested subcategories

awesomerobot (Kris) February 18, 2026, 2:37pm 4

Note that while max_category_nesting exists, it only supports up to 3 levels.

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