New Announcement Subcategories: Tool Annoucements, Writeup

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Could we get a “New Tool”, “Tool Update”, “Personal Writeup” and “Official Writeup” subcategories for annoucments?

Edit: removed “official writeup” since it could be considered an extra burden on maintainers.

Examples:

  • Transforming global software with …(Personal Writeup)
  • Optix (New Tool)
  • Reclaim 130Gb in Github Runners (Personal Writeup)
  • Thymis: Web Based Dashboard (New Tool)
  • 2025 S3 Sponsorship (Official Writeup)
  • Devenv 1.8 … (Tool Update)
  • App Shell (New Tool)
  • Nixfmt 1.0 (Tool Update)

I don’t care about the names, it just feels natural to fit (and filter) by those 4 groups.

I mainly want to see what new tools are being released. If 4 categories is too many, just New Tool would be a win in my book.

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Great idea, I’d also appreciate more fine-grained topics to follow or post to.

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I’d also love to see this, this could also encourage more update posts since we won’t feel like we’re taking away attention from new tools.

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I like the separation between official and non-official writeups; that makes it easier at a glance to see how my own infra would be affected.

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@Infinisil (sorry to ping, but I couldn’t find an alternative) Who has the power to make new categories? We need their help here.

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Check org/doc/discourse.md at 09b6c21458ac208959683a0886433c51d876d26b · NixOS/org · GitHub :slight_smile:

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@jtojnar It looks like people support this idea of additional subcategories, but we need help creating them, could you help here? Thanks for all your maintainance work!

(Also thank you @ Infinisl for the help!)

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Thanks for the proposal. We’re thinking this through and will be getting back to you in a few days.

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Just a friendly check-in on this. No worries if it got delayed

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@hexa I know things have been busy, so no worries about delays. This is a small/quick change, it is reversible and unlikely to cause problems even if not reversed. (Adding 3 sub-tags “New tool” “Tool Update” and “Personal Writeup”)

If you’re able to make that change, we would greatly appricate it. Thanks again for your work!

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Sorry, this got caught up in the governance kerfuffle. I’ll poke whoever remains to make a call.

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Just a friendly check in back on this @hexa (Adding 3 sub-tags “New tool” “Tool Update” and “Personal Writeup” to the announcement category). I’m kind of waiting for the tags so I can make an announcement.

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@hex another friendly ping :sweat_smile: might be worth making this (tiny) change and then reverting if there are complaints. Coming up on 6 months just to get a few inconsequential category-tags added.

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