What is the difference between a category and a space?

omar 2 months ago Resolved

Just getting started and I want to get the mental model right. A category seems to be a grouping, and a space is where the actual posts live — is that correct?

When should I create a new category versus just another space?

#migration #webhooks

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noah 4 weeks ago

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

finn 2 weeks ago Accepted

Short answer: yes, and here is the supported path.

Open the relevant settings panel.
Make the change there rather than editing files.
Save, then reload to confirm.

Doing it this way means your change survives updates. Hand-editing files does not.

david 2 months ago

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

david 2 months ago

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

finn 2 months ago

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

grace 2 months ago

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

aisha 2 months ago

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.

yuki 2 months ago

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

aisha 2 months ago

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.

carlos 1 month ago

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.