# Updating how categories are organized on Meta

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-how-categories-are-organized-on-meta/396306>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Tags:** meta-redesign-2026\
**Created:** [February 17, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-how-categories-are-organized-on-meta/396306 "2026-02-17T17:03:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 12:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-how-categories-are-organized-on-meta/396306/15 "2026-02-19T00:09:44Z")

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> [@mcwumbly](#):
>
> how to access the staging site

> **click to go**
>
> [one click staging site including credentials](https://meta2026bsbx:Q0U1ppbVbd2MVttuYOl+M8SYEOUqGLGjzl5sr1C9XwE=@meta-redesign-2026.discourse.group/)
> 
> → Hiding in case you don’t want robots going there.

Here would be my reshuffling of categories:

- News & Events
  - Announcements
  - Blog
  - Summaries

- Community
  - Agora (was: general)
  - Site Feedback
  - Praise
  - Comparison
  - Community Management
  - Marketplace
  - User Wiki
  - Admin Wiki
  - Dev Wiki
  - Sysadmin Wiki

- Documentation
  - Using Discourse
  - Site Management
  - Integrations
  - Discourse Hosting (was: Hosted Customers)
  - Self-Hosting
  - Migrating to Discourse
  - Developer Guides
  - Contributing

- Help
  - Installation
  - Hosting
  - Migration

- Integrate
  - WordPress
  - SSO

- Contribute
  - Bug
  - Feature
  - Dev
  - Translations
  - UX

- Customize
  - Plugin
  - Extras
  - Theme
  - Theme Component
  - Data & Reporting

Rationale:

- #Community Building would be the lively place for discussions related to anything not done anywhere, bringing together the larger Discourse community, including wikis, general discussion (#agora), site feedback, praise and comparison with other software, but also discussion about community management and the marketplace.
- #news-events would be for normal CDCK communication
- #help would be to get support
- #integrate would be to discuss specific integrations
- #Documentation would host the official knowledge base
- #Contribute would host all the development process
- #customize would host all that makes each Discourse instance a special community, including data reporting and exploration.

When someone new comes, they would either go to the (official) documentation, or to the community discussions…

I would suggest a #welcome tag pointing to a handful of introduction topics to navigate easily and onboard newcomers, e.g., for going from tl0 to tl1, grasping the mood and areas.

Probably the documentation should have a prominent start with The Documentation System tags: #tutorial, #explanation, #how-to, #reference.

Community Management could be called Community Building instead… I don’t like “Community Success” for some unclear reason.

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