Hello,
I was wondering if I could assign a default category when creating a new topic. I checked in the config search bar but I was uncertain that any option did that.
The reason I want to do see if this is possible is because I am thinking of having a public forum where the default category is private to limit access to registered users but also allowing some information public.
This forum is private because it is for activist organization but we want to share some commons without having to maintain another platform in parallel.
At the moment you’d need to develop a plugin for this. There are no settings I’m aware of that you can change in core discourse to set a default category.
Nope, non-staff are never able to create categories. By default only admins can create categories. To allow moderators to create categories, enable the moderators create categories site setting.
Have there been any developments on how to do this?
I use Discourse for ticketting but also have a public Blog Category. I live in fear of selecting the wrong category!
You are concerned that as an admin you might put something in the wrong category?
The pleasure of Discourse for me is that it is easy to then bring it back into the fold; you might let some email notifications escape of course.
I run a few private forums with public categories. It isn’t usually a big deal. You can add moderation to the public Category if you need to keep it tight, but this is usually more trouble than it is worth.
A good way to differentiate them is by identifying them by their colors. That way, you know that since Bug is yellow (e.g. here on Meta), then you won’t put it in somewhere that’s red/purple (e.g. Blog here on Meta).
