# Adding a Design category

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/adding-a-design-category/813>\
**Category:** Using this forum\
**Created:** [June 14, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/adding-a-design-category/813 "2023-06-14T15:04:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/adding-a-design-category/813/8 "2023-06-19T16:50:15Z")

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> [@lozanaross](#):
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> I didn’t understand the overhead with categories. It does make sense to keep categories minimal, but I wonder if we have the most efficient structure at the moment.
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> For example, “Using this forum” doesn’t make sense to me to be a separate category, since in the “Community Feedback” the description already says:

I agree the current structure probably needs a review. The original intent of the "Using this forum" was to provide a place where newcomers to the forum could find all the key information. However I don't think it's worked so well. Then [About the Using this forum category - #2 by antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/about-the-using-this-forum-category/3/2) led to a change in definition of the category which means it now completely overlaps [Community Feedback - OpenRefine](https://forum.openrefine.org/c/feedback/2). (If I'd caught that change at the time I would probably have pushed back but I missed it)

Anyway, I'd be very happy to see a simplification of the forum category structure 🙂

I think I like your Option 1 more than 2 - it may be worth us also asking in the Developer category for feedback (we want to welcome designers but not offend developers!)

I think for the internships we could have a general category, but I think we also need something specific for the various schemes as I know from experience people come looking for very specific things - a potential Outreachy candidate may not always look unless it says Outreachy

But overall - yes we can definitely improve, and ultimately if having a new category is necessary we should do it, but we should make sure it is the right choice

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