Removing Uncategorized and migrating to a standard category

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The Uncategorized category was the one I always filtered out in my queries as we never enabled it since day 1, so I welcome its removal, thanks @lindsey :smiley:

However, I had a rather unexpected experience today.

TL;DR; The Uncategorized category was enabled for everyone, and there were already two topics created in it.

Let me take a step back for a larger picture. Before the latest release deployed on our production last night,

  • the allow_uncategorized_topics setting was set to false,
  • the Uncategorized category was never used and empty; practically invisible to all users.
  • the Remove and replace uncategorized upcoming change was enabled for Everyone

Just because the category was never used, and empty; I expected it would be removed completely.

It might be just me misreading the feature description, but I still was surprised to see it became a public category.

I think it would helped better if there was a clearer wording, and explanation of what to expect in various configurations.

For the record, I moved the topics to another category, and changed its security settings to make it admin only. So it is not an issue at the moment.
Once I have the time, I’ll review, and eventually delete the category completely.

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