❗ Some Changes to Forums Categories

[kachenka]

I’m supportive of these changes on a whole and appreciate the thought that’s been put into by the mod team.

@katinka

Thanks for the input! Existing #baby-names posts will be recategorized. Most will go into General Name Discussion. If there are some appropriate recent posts, I will pop them into Name Advice to get things started

By existing posts, do you mean all 36,000+ posts in the #baby-names category or something more specific?

@katinka

The current plan is to archive the majority of them so they are no longer visible or accessible, as with Everything But Names. However, recent or ongoing posts may be moved to Name Advice so as to keep those going for the OPs who posted them, so that they can continue to benefit from the great advice already given.

Is there reasoning behind the decision to re-categorise posts in the #baby-names category but not #sibling-names? Since both of these categories are named focused I would’ve thought they would be treated the same way. There’s a wealth of great name ideas and advice in the #sibling-names category as there is in other categories. It would be a loss to lose visibility of those posts. I often use the search function and there’s a lot of gold in posts from years and years ago. I think of these posts in the same way.

If it’s about man power, I will put my hand up to help re-categorise posts