GitHub Community Discussions: Category Restructure Complete 🎉

[samus-aran]

Hi everyone, we’re excited to share that we’ve completed the category restructure of GitHub Community Discussions. This update is designed to make it easier to find the right place to ask questions, share ideas, and connect with one another.

New Layout Markdown representation (and old layout image)

New Layout Markdown

- Accessibility
- Announcements
- AI & Copilot
  - Copilot Conversations
  - Copilot News and Announcements
- Apps, APIs & Webhooks
  - Apps, API and Webhooks
  - Mobile
- Automation & Developer tools
  - Actions
  - npm
  - Packages
- Code & Contributions
  - Codespaces
  - Pull Requests
  - Repositories
- Collaboration & Planning
  - Discussions
  - Projects & Issues
- Community Hub
  - A Welcome to GitHub
  - New to GitHub
  - Programming Help
- Education & Skilling
  - Discover: GitHub Best Practices
  - GitHub Education
  - GitHub Learn
- Enterprise & Security
  - Code Security
  - Enterprise
- Questions & Other Feedback
  - Other Feature Feedback, Questions, & Ideas

Old Layout

Based on the plan we shared previously, we focused on making categories more theme-based, creating clearer starting points for new and returning members. Plus, we've set up a community hub for more casual, friendly chats so members can connect and share ideas.

• Theme-based categories: Categories are now organized around themes to help you navigate discussions more intuitively.
• Consolidation: We’ve combined several product-specific categories into one main category where it makes sense, so it’s easier to find what you’re looking for, and everything is less scattered.
• New categories added: We introduced a few new spaces, including A Welcome to GitHub, where you can introduce yourself and connect with others who share your interests, and GitHub Learn category, which is dedicated to sharing feedback on all things GitHub Learn – our library of beginner-friendly tutorials, hands-on learning, and expert-led lessons.

We have also consolidated several categories such as General, Feed, Lists, Profile, Sponsors, Models, and Code Search and Navigation into the new “Other Feature Feedback, Questions, and Ideas.” You can select these newly grouped topics in the discussion template. If none are suitable, please choose “Other” and we will review these submissions over the coming weeks to help us add/remove labels if required.

Along with updating categories, we’ve improved our community workflows and added new processes to make triage and moderation more efficient, and to standardize discussion types and topic areas. This makes it easier to spot rising interest and triage discussions appropriately. We’ve also added an auto-close workflow for discussions that weren’t created using our templates (for example, posts created via the API), since consistent formatting is needed for our automations and moderation tools to work effectively.

All these updates lay the groundwork for future work for reducing spam and improving overall post quality. 💪

Over the coming weeks, we’re planning to introduce agentic workflows focused on auto-labelling and spam detection, so we can keep discussions organized and help everyone get to answers faster. More on that when they are activated.

We’re excited to see how the community continues to grow with these changes. We hope the new structure makes it simpler to explore topics, discover helpful threads, and share more of yourselves, so everyone can feel a stronger sense of belonging here.

We’d love your feedback

Tell us what works, what’s unclear, or what you’d like added. This helps us keep everything organised.

If you notice any broken links when navigating the community or the updated categories, please let us know in the comments and include where you found it and what you expected to see. 🔗

Carried over from our initial announcement (we’ve summarized these here to keep this discussion as the source of truth going forward):

• Copilot-powered discussions search and pre-submit duplicate detection
• Labels discoverability and behavior: descriptions hard to find; label links/search do not include discussions

Thanks for helping make this community a welcoming and useful space for everyone. ❤️