Is it possible to have subtopics?

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In the hardware area there is now a topic on frame design ideas, we are really going to need to have many different discussions under that topic. can we make a sub-topic or should we make a new high-level topic for those discussions?

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Or subcategories as an alternative, if subtopics aren’t a thing?

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There are two ways to handle this: with sub-categories or with tags.

Sub-categories can go one level deep. You can apply as many tags to a post as you like.

We could implement either or both to organize the topics a bit.

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I think we want both. Tagging can be useful but isn’t always done

even one level of sub-categories can help organize things a lot

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Here’s what I’m thinking:

Hardware Issues

  • Frame
  • Sled
  • Electronics

Software Issues

  • Ground Control
  • Maslow Firmware

For tags, I think we should promote the tag “modification” for discussions related to changes in any of those categories.

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Bringing an old post back from the dead…

I’d like to propose adding in some subcategories to the CAD/CAM portion… I think you can only go one level deep, so maybe:

Makercam [CAM]
Fusion360 [CAD/CAM}
CamBam [CAM]
Inkscape [CAD]
etc.

I think it would be useful to have these subtopics so people could ask their application specific Maslow oriented questions in an appropriate location without intermixing things too much.

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Thanks for bringing this one back from the dead. :slight_smile:

I’ll get to work on these this evening. I added the Makercam one as a test; it looks like it worked fine.

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One small change here: I added a more generic category for Illustration software; Inkscape, Illustrator, etc shouldn’t be confused with CAD for a number of reasons. I realize it’s used for those purposes, but they’re really in a different class of software.

They’re also strictly 2D where the others are 3D.

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