The discussion “Macro category” revolves around the idea of visually organizing categories in Discourse without creating a three-tier hierarchy. franciscom initially proposed the concept of “macro-categories” as a visual way to group categories, but not as a category itself. codinghorror suggested that this could be achieved through CSS, but advised against over-categorizing.
Stephen explained that creating a three-tier hierarchy would be jarring, as only two tiers would be visible when browsing categories and topics. JimPas rephrased the idea as a visually appealing tree structure, while franciscom described it as a way to divide categories by “area.” However, Stephen maintained that this would still be a three-tiered hierarchy.
frold questioned the need for such a system, suggesting that it’s outdated. Instead, franciscom proposed allowing administrators to sort category positions after creation. renato pointed out that enabling the “fixed category positions” setting achieves this exact functionality.
Hi!
Is it actually possible with Discourse sorting the categories themselves in a Macro-category?
example:
TECH (macro)
GAMES (macro)
I mean, the “macro” should not be a category… but a “visual” way to organize the “Categories” tab
So just CSS then? I strongly recommend avoiding over-categorizing things, as you will overwhelm and confuse your audience.
No, that’s not possible, and if it were it would be pretty jarring to see things presented as a three-tier hierarchy with only two tiers appearing when browsing categories and topics.
Mh 
I didn’t think about that
It appears you’re looking for something more like “visually appealing” presentation of this?
Category (with a “pretty” visual banner)
In others words, you’re looking for a visually appealing tree structure instead of the manner it’s currently presented as?
A structure that allows me to divide categories by “area”
No matter how you phrase it, you’re looking for a three-tiered hierarchy, whilst only presenting the categories in two tiers everywhere else.
Why try doing something very twenty-zero’s like with a 2020 software? We are past the phpBB era… 
Instead of this, perhaps the possibility for the administrator to “sort” the position of the categories even after their creation?
Just enable the “fixed category positions” setting that does exactly that.
