I was taking a look at the posts in the âuncategorizedâ category and couldnât help but thinking that this forum could do with a few more categories such as
âappsâ for posts relating to featured apps as well as â3rd party appsâ and
âotherâ for posts completely unrelated to NC/OC matters
It looks like we have plenty of new categories in the forum now. Since it has been more than four years since the post and any discussion here probably needs a refocus to keep this topic viable, I would like to somehow expand the scope of this topic but not to prod users from crossposting, what are your thoughts, @John?
Iâve also been thinking about this. The most flexible option, which is more convenient than adding categories is to use tags. Trust me, Discourse offers a number of cool ways to use tags as opposed to the limit of max 2 depth categories.
The benefit of tags is we can apply them across potentially all/some categories, or group them together, or⌠lots of opportunities!
As a user who was assigned by my employer to find common ground with the diverse needs of the community, I have been trained for decades by our organization to become exceedingly mindful in transmitting the results our pondering to those who share common interest. In addition, the boss acquiesced that my contributions here count towards my assigned duties for the time being since it could be part of the diplomatic skills assessment in my performance evaluation. So, with this in mind, and the fact that I review and update my previous posts on a regular basis, I have come to believe that it has become essential for me to propose needed changes to the forum itself and call attention to what I believe to be noteworthy issues in certain pieces of open-source software.
There are already several topics on the forum where the categorization and tagging of posts were discussed, e.g. Organizational structure of this forum, and News announcementsThis thread is dedicated to the discussion of the categories section as an evolving style manual, within the limitations of Discourse, the software running the forum. From my perspective, it has become indispensable for leading members of the forum to come to a consensus, within the coming year, on which apps should have their respective threads organized by categories and the appendage of tags to them. While many in the forum may suggest that I should mute certain categories in account preferences as a workaround, I must respectfully disagree in that it hinders my ability to become a thoughtful contributor by distorting my understanding of Nextcloud usersâ inclinations.
With this in mind, and after consulting with my colleagues in Valencia and Te-gu, I recommend that we reclassify the subcategories section of the forum, with the list sorted by the number of topics in each subcategory, as follows:
Features & apps > Calendar â subcategory
Features & apps > ONLYoffice â subcategory
Features & apps > app ideas â subcategory
Features & apps > Contacts â subcategory
Features & apps > Mail â subcategory
Features & apps > Full text search â subcategory
Features & apps > Group folders â subcategory
Features & apps > Passwords â subcategory
Features & apps > Community Document Server â subcategory
Features & apps > Files Access Control â subcategory
Features & apps > Deck â subcategory
Features & apps > two-factor âsubcategory with these tags: twofactor_utf | twofactor_totp | twofactor_webauthn | openotp | twofactor_yubikey
Features & apps > audioplayer âsubcategory with these tags:SONOS, ID3
Features & apps > amMusic â subcategory
Features & apps > iheartRadio â subcategory
Features & apps > user_saml â subcategory
Features & apps > Integration âsubcategory with these tags: cms-pico, sociallogin, discourse, reddit, twitter, rocketchat, windows10, etc.
Features & apps > conniption â subcategory
Features & apps > Tasksâ subcategory
Features & apps > ojsxcâ subcategory
Features & apps > circlesâ subcategory
Features & apps > Photosâ subcategory
Features & apps > Mapsâ subcategory
Features & apps > Photosâ subcategory
Features & apps > phonetrackâ subcategory
Features & apps > rainloopâ subcategory
Features & apps > filelinkâ subcategory
Features & apps > ocrâ subcategory
Features & apps > Activity Logâ subcategory
Features & apps > Photosâ subcategory
Features & apps > Dashboardsâ subcategory
Features & apps > Passmanâ subcategory
Features & apps > socialâ subcategory
Features & apps > flowuploadâ subcategory
Features & apps > fullnextsearch_elasticsearchâ subcategory
Features & apps > Files automated taggingâ subcategory
Features & apps > files-retentionâ subcategory
TL;DR- Besides giving some users on this forum additional opportunities for pondering before writing a gruff response, the obfuscation of the listed categories shows that I donât expect the Nextcloud community to heed to my every word (pun intended).
Hmm, actually I would stick closer to the advice in the older linked thread and focus on tags.
Category
Tag
Tag Grouping
Notice how the setup I propose using what you mentioned requires only a single category and replaces sub-categories entirely with tags + tag groupings.
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Features & apps
Calendar
ONLYoffice
two-factor â w/ required selection from Tag Group:*
audioplayer â w/ required selection from Tag Group:
SONOS, ID3
amMusic
iheartRadio
user_saml
Tasks
ojsxc
circles
Photos
Maps
Photos
phonetrack
rainloop
filelink
ocr
Activity Log
Photos
Dashboards
Passman
social
flowupload
fullnextsearch_elasticsearch
Files automated Tagging
files-retention
My .02 âUnfamiliarâ could be âToolsâ and âconniptionâ could be skipped entirely. If âIntegrationâ were used, Iâd mirror it again the layout on the appstore. Of course, there are many more categories to consider and it might well be unrealistic to adapt this model. But, I had fun whipping it up, haha.