Updating how categories are organized on Meta

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

@NateDhaliwal

Well, I’ll definely need some time to adjust to the new colours. Customization > Theme looks like the old #announcements:blog category.

Yeah, perhaps the color choices will need a closer look if we continue down this path.

@stephtara

@mcwumbly

I’ve also updated the default sidebar categories, but haven’t applied them for everyone, so if you want to try out setting your sidebar to the new defaults, you can do this:

I’ve done this but most of the categories it makes sense for me to go to directly are now hidden. So I checked the subcategory boxes I wanted to make them visible, and hid a bunch of top level categories, which makes it more usable for me.

Can you share a few examples of subcategories you decided to add back?

@stephtara

One thing that mystifies me is why Community Building > General is now in Community Building — feels wrong that the general category should be a subcategory

Yeah, will keep thinking about this one…

@Moin

The category filter at the top of the topics page doesn’t show subcategories, which is expected. But usually, you can use search to find them. This doesn’t work for me on Meta

Hmm… can you share a screenshot of this not working for you? Here’s me searching for translations there: