I can’t find an area for deleting channels, deleting categories, shouldn’t that be in the settings? And what’s in my settings, a bunch of useless customization settings, so irrelevant, and such an important function (edit, add, delete categories, channels) function, I searched for 30 minutes and couldn’t find it, I’ve used some forum software, WordPress, Flarum, discuz, etc., but discourse is the first one that I can’t find the edit category and delete channel area. Delete Channels, it’s horrible!

Hello @尔德_王, Welcome to our community! :blob_wave: I know how frustrating it can be to fight with the UX of a software product sometimes. Also due to our open source nature it can be really hard, specially for non-tech people to set a personal self-hosted instance. The beauty of Discourse for me lies in the community, if you feel like you’re struggling don’t hesitate to open a topic about it here on Meta, people will show up really fast. When you have free time there are many great topics in #documentation covering our features as well. Thank you for your feedback.

What you said is quite right. I found many enthusiastic people here to help me. My proposal has also received official attention. I think it is very well written. This kind of community atmosphere is also very good. Although it took me three days to build discourse on my own server, I think it was worth it

@尔德_王 when thing that pleasantly surprised me was how good our bot was at answering these types of questions (reload/ robot on top), for example: Simplifying Category Removal: Step-by-Step User Guide sam: 如何删除类别 ForumHelperBot: 在Discourse中删除类别前，需要先删除或移动该类别中的所有主题。以下是一些具体的方法和参考资料：如何删除类别？删除类别如何删除类别和子类别？删除类别的步骤一般包括：确保该类别中所有主题已被删除或移动。进入"类别"管理页面，找到并选择要删除的类别。在类别设置中，点击"删除"按钮。如果类别中仍有主题，则需要先处理这些主题（删除或移动到其他类别）。这样才能最终删除该类别。希望这些信息对你有帮助！如果有进一步的问题，可以随时提问。 Read full transcript I added you to bot_testers group here, feel free to have a play and see if it helps you.

[This image appears to be a screenshot of a crowdsourcing platform or website interface, likely used for managing translations or content localization tasks, with various fields and options displayed in both English and Chinese text. (Captioned by AI)] I’m involved in some translation work, when will I see my translated Chinese synchronized to the existing version? It feels like quite an accomplishment to do translation work!

Translations are usually merged on Tuesdays. I like to look at Commits · discourse/discourse · GitHub to check whether new translations were merged because then I want to update Discourse

Discourse is much more modern than many of the other platforms you mentioned, and so it’s foundation is different - written with Ruby, and running with docker - it’s quite a learning, curve but I do think it’s worth it (some of these things like docker will pay off to understand in the future I think, and generally administration is quite smooth and it’s generally very stable with a pretty healthy development ecosystem from what I can tel). And I’m not surprised there’s very little on the Chinese internet about it… perhaps that will change with time, but ultimately it’s not just a matter of language barrier, there are actual technical barriers as well. 努力吧！你会成功！你的翻译建议以及这里的问题也会帮别人更顺利得把Discourse设置好

I was previously using the SMF forum software (PHP-based and kind of retro) before discourse and I can understand where you’re coming from. Those forum softwares were a bit more logical and organized with it comes to admin stuff. However, I can happily report that after spending a little less than two days digging around in the Discourse admin section, I’m starting to get quite used to it. So I think it’s just very overwhelming in the very beginning, but the change in Discourse’s approach starts to pay off very quickly as it is incredibly customizable and truly future-proof. I wish you the best of luck! Edit: spelling errors

I agree discourse is non trivial to set up, and it’s the first large project I’ve interacted with that’s written in ruby / rails. The only actually difficult issues, however we’re with first getting outgoing emails setup, the suggested email providers won’t even talk to someone running a small volume. There was an additional day invested in setting up incoming emails, which many of our user base insist on .. everywhere you find people who don’t care to interact with a new service :woman_shrugging:. We also bricked our install, somewhere between me trying to do something I didn’t realize was impossible (nesting more than 2 levels of categories), then trying to delete what I’d done … simultaneously to a dev I’d shared root privileges with breaking some things trying to run another site alongside on the same host. .. had to reinstall and recreate all categories. Completely worth it

Thanks! Really appreciated reading all your feedback for our product. We’re definitely trying to simplify the admin experience and will be making improvements in the areas you’ve mentioned. We also usually have our new hires run through a self-hosted setup on a provider, so we’ll try and run through that again to see what we can streamline. [image] 尔德王: [This image appears to be a screenshot of a crowdsourcing platform or website interface, likely used for managing translations or content localization tasks, with various fields and options displayed in both English and Chinese text. (Captioned by AI)] By the way from your screenshot, the translation key above says js.notifications.titles.linked_consolidated so it isn’t “likes” → “点赞”, but should be “link” → “链接” There is a similar key js.notifications.titles.likes_consolidated which would be “点赞” though.

[image] Sadie: I didn’t realize was impossible (nesting more than 2 levels of categories), then trying to delete what I’d done There is a command line to allow nesting subcategories beyond just 1 level. Have to do a search. But have mine set to allow 3 parent\subcat1\subcat2 Brevo com is pretty good in their free teir

I'm really convinced that I'm being toyed with by a community software

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I think you mean this?

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