Change order of available categories when creating a new topic?

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Hey,

i’m often seeing that users are choosing the “Development” category instead of a better fitting category like e.g. “Server” or “Desktop”. Maybe the following from Links for shares changed from version 10.5.0-1 to 10.5.0-4 in centos 7 could explain this:

Currently the “News” category is on top of the list of categories to choose while creating a new topic followed by “Development”.

Maybe changing the order to something like the following (if this is possible at all) could improve the user experience?

  • Server
  • Desktop
  • Android (or iOS)
  • iOS (or Android)
  • Development
  • Events
  • Meta
  • News

Basically what i did was to sort the categories by the most used and ended if by the one (News) where users are not even able to create postings at.

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Hey,

there are two recent topics which were also created in the “Development” category due to this:

I think users are often too lazy to scroll down the list of available categories and are just picking the first available category. Maybe my solution will help for this issue?

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re-ordered

Screenshot 2020-09-24 at 15.27.44
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Thanks for taking the time with noticing, and proposing a solution :slight_smile:

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Nice, this looks great. Let’s hope that more users are choosing the correct category.

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It’s the only thing we can do :slight_smile:

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