This is my opinion on what would work for a category restructure, from bottom to top:
- Science, Engineering, and Tech – Either merge with Community Category as STEM subcat, or scrap and replace with STEM tags.
- Vehicles & Mobility – Merge with Community as a subcat or scrap for tags. The car lounge gets plenty of traffic, but that’s about it.
- Audio Hardware & Software – Scrap for tags.
- Arts & Media – Merge with Community and utilize tags.
- Gaming – Leave as-is
- Mobile Tech – Two alternatives
- Make Mobile Hardware subcat in Hardware and add Mobile OS tag for Software & OS category
- Leave as-is because although not a fast category, it is regular.
- Development – Either merge with Software & OS as a subcat or leave as regular category, but scrap all current subcats. The current Code subcat is really the only regularly busy one.
- Software & OS – Reorganize subcats. Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, VFIO (for now). Make sure there is a FOSS tag. Rename as just Software?
- Legacy & Vintage – Merge into Hardware and Software categories. Subcats could work, but Legacy and/or Vintage tags would probably work just as well.
- Networking – Seems popular enough to leave alone?
- Hardware – Oh boy
- Reorganize subcats. Build a PC, Motherboards, CPU, GPU, Storage, Power, Cases, Enterprise, Other. Remaining categories into tags.
- Go ballsy and really restructure. Build a PC, Desktop/Workstation, Mobile, Enterprise. Nothing else. Tags for days.
- Community Blog – Either merge in Community category as Blog subcat, or scrap for tags.
- Community – Scrap Finance & Business, Education & Jobs, and Events in lieu of tags. DIY could probably be a tag as well. Leave OT, Tech Policy & News, and BST.
- Wikis & How-To – Preferably the Wiki portion would move to the main L1T site, because honestly Discourse is terrible for Wiki style content. If not a Wiki tag would work. How-to could be a tag.
- Level1Techs – Leave as-is? Maybe add a Video subcat for the Wendellbot posts.