# Brainstorming some category changes for announcements here

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brainstorming-some-category-changes-for-announcements-here/137763>\
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**Created:** [June 23, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brainstorming-some-category-changes-for-announcements-here/137763 "2026-06-23T13:44:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brainstorming-some-category-changes-for-announcements-here/137763/1 "2026-06-23T13:44:15Z")

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I think it could be valuable to rearrange some of our categories relating to announcements here to make it easier for folks to find and subscribe to particular aspects they care about. We currently have three categories for announcements:

- #Announcements, limited to Julia releases and JuliaCon announcements (handful a month)
- #Community > Newsletter, limited to Stefan Krastanov’s writeups (one a month-ish); tucked away as a subcategory of Community
- #Package Announcements, free-for-all (dozens per month)

I know a good number of folks have setup email notifications on _just_ the first one or two categories there, serving as a low-volume news-like listserv… and that’d be quite valuable or security announcements as well.

I think it’d be nice to also add a new low-volume Security Announcements category, to include posts like [Security PSA: 16 Advisories in HTTP.jl (Please upgrade to 2.4.0)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/security-psa-16-advisories-in-http-jl-please-upgrade-to-2-4-0/137705/) and [Security Advisory: HTTP.jl, URIs.jl, Registrator.jl, GitForge.jl, and GitHub.jl](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/security-advisory-http-jl-uris-jl-registrator-jl-gitforge-jl-and-github-jl/130189/).

Thinking about a new category has made me wonder where it should live… and that made me wonder if some (or all) of these should become subcategories of #Announcements. We could create a net new category, and _move_ the existing Announcements into it so as to not disturb folks’ subscriptions to that one. But then they’re collected into one place, and you could choose to subscribe to all of them or just a few.

The only bit that gives me pause is if we should keep Package Announcements separate or not — those have an order of magnitude (or two!) more posts than the others and are the only one that’s not limited-access (by design).

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![tobydriscoll](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tobydriscoll/32/1843_2.png) [@tobydriscoll](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tobydriscoll)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brainstorming-some-category-changes-for-announcements-here/137763/2 "2026-06-23T14:00:32Z")

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A security category somewhere makes a lot of sense, and having it underneath Announcements does, too.

I think the low bandwidth and restricted access of Announcements are important characteristics, signaling “Pay attention!” Package announcements and the Julia World updates are really useful, but not at the same level of urgency. I’m ok leaving them where they are now.

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**Author:** ![mihalybaci](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mihalybaci/32/13528_2.png) [@mihalybaci](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mihalybaci)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brainstorming-some-category-changes-for-announcements-here/137763/3 "2026-06-23T18:09:33Z")

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I like the current categories as they are. Especially because the differing colors next to each category is an immediate signal of what the post contains. Adding security notes under the main Julia “Announcements” category makes sense, but it could also work as its own “Security Notices” category so that it gets its own color tag.

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**Author:** ![sylvaticus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sylvaticus/32/203883_2.png) [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 8:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brainstorming-some-category-changes-for-announcements-here/137763/4 "2026-07-09T08:26:02Z")

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I would suggest that the package announcement has some way (category description, pre-filled post text… whatever discourse has available) to ping posters to include a brief description about the topic of their package.  
This is a wide forum about a programming language, and very often you read a package announcement about XXX and you don’t have any idea what XXX is about. Of course, those interested will now what XXX is about, but it would be nice that such posters could reach a broaded public by just saying what XXX is (one sentence with a link say to Wikipedia would be fine in most cases).