# Confused about categories **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta Discussion\ **Created:** [March 18, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-about-categories/57447 "2021-03-18T07:34:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![TheLateKronos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/thelatekronos/32/12824_2.png) [@TheLateKronos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheLateKronos)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-about-categories/57447/1 "2021-03-18T07:34:25Z")

Tooling, Domains, Usage. I am not sure which category should be used when I have a questions reguarding some specific Package. Is it one of these, or would it be a good idea to add a new `Packages` category? ---

**Author:** ![nandoconde](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nandoconde/32/19497_2.png) [@nandoconde](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nandoconde)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 8:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-about-categories/57447/2 "2021-03-18T08:47:48Z")

I think this question should be in the Meta-Discussion subforum 😃 ---

**Author:** ![TheLateKronos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/thelatekronos/32/12824_2.png) [@TheLateKronos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheLateKronos)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-about-categories/57447/3 "2021-03-18T09:04:57Z")

Haha wow yes. Due to being a little confused about categories, it seems I have gotten used to default to `Usage`. Sorry about that. The category is changed 🙂 This was an example of a symptom of the problem xD ---

**Author:** ![nandoconde](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nandoconde/32/19497_2.png) [@nandoconde](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nandoconde)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 10:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-about-categories/57447/4 "2021-03-18T10:21:43Z")

Ha ha, no problem. By the way, I agree with you, it’d be good to have specific packages subforum. ---

**Author:** ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-about-categories/57447/5 "2021-03-18T12:31:21Z")

Any ideas how this would be implemented? With 5,000 packages, we can’t have a section for each, so how would we go about breaking it up? ---

**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-about-categories/57447/6 "2021-03-18T14:07:59Z")

> [@logankilpatrick](#): > > so how would we go about breaking it up? I think that when the question corresponds to packages for some specific functionality that already has a category (eg a question about plotting can go to _Domains/Visualization_) then it should go there (but _Usage_ is fine too), otherwise default to _Usage_. I don’t really see the point of introducing a lot of fine categories, people will just get lost. Rather, we should encourage informative post titles (eg _“filtering dataframes by group statistics”_ in place of _“I have spent 8 hours trying to figure this out and I am ready to chop my computer into little pieces with an axe”_). ---

**Author:** ![TheLateKronos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/thelatekronos/32/12824_2.png) [@TheLateKronos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheLateKronos)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-about-categories/57447/7 "2021-03-18T15:17:28Z")

> [@logankilpatrick](#): > > Any ideas how this would be implemented? With 5,000 packages, we can’t have a section for each, so how would we go about breaking it up? Not breaking it up at all. Just adding a category called Packages, where one can ask questions reguarding _any_ specific package. It would feel like a better fit that just chucking it into usage. I am, to clarify, _not at all_ in favor of splitting anything up for each individual package. But I just had another idéa: perhaps usage/packages would be the right solution? ---

**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:** [March 18, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-about-categories/57447/8 "2021-03-18T16:05:09Z")

> [@Tamas\_Papp](#): > > I think that when the question corresponds to packages for some specific functionality that already has a category (eg a question about plotting can go to _Domains/Visualization_ ) then it should go there (but _Usage_ is fine too), otherwise default to _Usage_ . This is precisely how I think of it, too. I see #General Usage as the default superset of everything. If there’s a more specific category then use that. Categories are really only useful for two things: - A place where folks who care can dedicatedly follow or even opt-in to emails for a curated subset that’s relevant to them in real-time. - A place where folks can go to find old posts on subset they care about (e.g., by category search or browsing). I don’t see a catch-all “packages” category being all that helpful for either of those use-cases. The category descriptions are all wikis, we can continue editing them to make things more obvious here.