I wonder if having a “General” category overlaps too much with other categories and therefore creates more confusion than added value.
To explain what I mean, the description for “General” is currently:
General discussion of ideas, technology, funding, or anything else related to mission.
This description seems to overlap with the categories “Ideas,” “Tech Help,” “Projects,” and “Site Meta.”
Using the current posts within the “General” category for example, I would’ve expected to see the post about what kind of support would help your project show up in the “Projects” category (or maybe in the future even be its own kind of subcategory of “Project Support” if it becomes a popular type of post). I would’ve expected the posts about building our community, What is this place for?, and Welcome read.me to be in the “Site Meta” category. The only other post there right now there is Other Communities which I think might either fit in the “Projects” category (even though it’s about other external peoples’ projects) or be its own new category (called “Helpful Resources” or something to that effect).
If we remove the “General” category (and transfer the existing posts to the other categories), we could create new specific categories as the needs arise. The “Site Meta” category already provides a great/obvious place to talk about ideas for new categories.