I’m not sure about how Discourse works, but on some other traditional message boards, there’s a tradition of long-running threads on a specific topic, with conversation and news articles regarding a topic being linked to there long-term.
Is there a way to add hidden categories by default, i.e, if they’re tagged such, they’re not visible by default through “all categories”? If so, could we add some default conversations, with more opt-in conversations hidden by thread? Or, IIRC, Microsoft Community’s forums has similar categorizing capabilities.
What I really want is a permanent discussion board for Production Haskell, Haskell in the enterprise, Haskell start-ups, etc, where people discuss how Haskell is used in enterprise, what idioms and design patterns work, and so on. I recently found a nice post on a Rust start-up, of all things, where while the team loved the language, they wouldn’t use it for future start-ups due to ergonomic reasons, blaming the borrow-checker. This wouldn’t fit on a Haskell discourse in general, but it’d fit in a specialized thread, which would just end up getting bumped to top-level incessantly if Haskell Discourse used a single all categories thread option.
