docs/content/discussions/managing-discussions-for-your-community/managing-categories-for-discussions-in-your-repository.md

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Managing categories for discussions in your repository	You can categorize the discussions in your repository to organize conversations for your community members, and you can choose a format for each category.	Repository administrators and people with write or greater access to a repository can enable discussions in the repository.	[{free-pro-team *}]

{% data reusables.discussions.beta %}

About categories for discussions

{% data reusables.discussions.about-discussions %} {% data reusables.discussions.about-categories-and-formats %}

{% data reusables.discussions.about-announcement-format %}

Each category must have a unique name and emoji pairing, and can be accompanied by a detailed description stating its purpose. Categories help maintainers organize how conversations are filed and are customizable to help distinguish categories that are Q&A or more open-ended conversations. {% data reusables.discussions.repository-category-limit %} For more information, see "About discussions."

Default categories

Category	Purpose	Format
📣 Announcements	Updates and news from project maintainers	Announcement
#️⃣ General	Anything and everything relevant to the project	Open-ended discussion
💡 Ideas	Ideas to change or improve the project	Open-ended discussion
🙏 Q&A	Questions for the community to answer, with a question/answer format	Question and Answer
🙌 Show and tell	Creations, experiments, or tests relevant to the project	Open-ended discussion

Creating a category

{% data reusables.repositories.navigate-to-repo %} {% data reusables.discussions.discussions-tab %} {% data reusables.discussions.edit-categories %}

1. Click New category.
2. Edit the emoji, title, description, and discussion format for the category. For more information about discussion formats, see "About discussions."
3. Click Create.

Editing a category

You can edit a category to change the category's emoji, title, description, and discussion format.

{% data reusables.repositories.navigate-to-repo %} {% data reusables.discussions.discussions-tab %}

1. To the right of a category in the list, click {% octicon "pencil" aria-label="The pencil icon" %}.
2. {% data reusables.discussions.edit-category-details %}
3. Click Save changes.

Deleting a category

When you delete a category, {% data variables.product.product_name %} will move all discussions in the deleted category to an existing category that you choose.

{% data reusables.repositories.navigate-to-repo %} {% data reusables.discussions.discussions-tab %}

1. To the right of a category in the list, click {% octicon "trash" aria-label="The trash icon" %}.
2. Use the drop-down menu, and choose a new category for any discussions in the category you're deleting.
3. Click Delete & Move.