Curious about best practices for crafting the layout. Our website has a big selection of blog topics but they can overlap. I have read keep categories limited and simple. At the same time, I want to foster conversations and make sure people looking for topics can find them!
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In the discussion “Starting out in Discourse- Creating Categories and Topics,” Townsend_Russell sought advice on crafting a layout for their website, which has a large selection of overlapping blog topics. JammyDodger suggested utilizing tags, referencing a meta discussion on the topic (https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/72467).
Townsend_Russell was initially inclined to create multiple categories and subcategories, such as Travel with subcategories for Local and World Travel, but was concerned about the potential for low engagement in each category. JimPas suggested using a combination of categories, subcategories, and tags to organize topics, allowing for segmentation as popularity grows.
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Tags can be quite useful, if you haven’t explored those yet:
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Hmmm… that’s a good idea.
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Another thing to think about is categories and sub-categories. Take for instance Travel mentioned above. You can have sub-categories for Local and World Travel. Individual topics will populate those. A Sports category can also have sub-categories for each type of sport.
These can be supplemented with Tags of course. 
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Much appreciated! That was my initial thought..but then I kept reading about keeping the number of categories down. Made me wonder if it’s an engagement thing. Lots of categories/subcategories with less conversation in them vs a generic category with more volume. Then segmenting later as popularity grows. My brain just wants to segment now!
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