# More friendly category creation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-friendly-category-creation/390841
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** categories
**Created:** [December 9, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-friendly-category-creation/390841 "2025-12-09T23:37:19Z")
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### Author: ![stephtara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephtara/32/517827_2.png) [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-friendly-category-creation/390841/9 "2025-12-11T16:53:16Z")

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@Canapin so, after playing a bit with it, I mistakenly refreshed the browser window, which gave me an opportunity to try the “import” button. I can report back that export works (see attached file), but import silently fails 😂

[discourse\_categories-7.csv](https://meta.discourse.org/uploads/short-url/1nG2zLRC1eTrdQaUZHa3MrjAbRu.csv) (3.4 KB)

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