The Uncategorized category was intended to serve as a home for topics that don’t fit the community’s category structure or haven’t been categorized yet, but the special nature of Uncategorized created bugs and inconsistencies.
That’s why we’re removing it and migrating everyone who was using it to a standard category that will provide all the same benefits, but without these issues.
What’s changed
When the Remove and replace Uncategorized category upcoming change is enabled, the special Uncategorized category becomes a standard category. If this category was set as the default composer category (meaning it is the default category when someone opens the composer), the standard category will set as the default. All topics in the Uncategorized category will remain in the standard category.
All in all, this should be a seamless and invisible change to your staff and community members.
For communities using tags only (no categories): If your site was relying on Uncategorized as a way to avoid requiring category selection, you’ll want to install the discourse-tags-only-component theme component to hide the category selector in the composer.
You’ll also need to set
default composer categoryto your single default category, and removeCategoriesfrom yourtop_menu. Categories remain accessible in/adminand while creating chat channels.
Turning on Remove and replace Uncategorized category in your community
To turn this on early, head to the Upcoming changes page in your admin area (/admin/config/upcoming-changes) and find the Remove and replace Uncategorized category item. Update the Enabled for… field to opt your site in:
Note: This upcoming change will only be visible to sites that currently have
allow uncategorized topicsenabled.