SMF's categories vs Discourse's categories

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@dsanchez

“Simple Machines” will become a category
“News and updates” will become a sub-category of the above
“Archives” will dissapear and all topics in it will be tagged with the word “Archives”? and all topics there will belong to “News and Updates”

After doing this, you can amend the script to “Archive Topic” on Discourse.

The difference between Closed, Unlisted and Archived topics

How do “Archiving” vs. “Closing” a topic compare? Common to both Displays a “lock” icon next to topic in lists Disables replying to topic Disables “Invite” button at bottom of topic. Closing or archiving a topic does not bump its last activity date. Continues to allow flagging of topic or posts. Continues to allow bookmarking. Specific to Archived topics Disables users ability to delete a post. Disables likes. Disabled poll based voting (effectively closing polls). Disables display of top…