# New Announcement Subcategories: Tool Annoucements, Writeup
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471
**Category:** Meta
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471 "2025-08-01T12:52:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@jeff-hykin](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jeff-hykin)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/1 "2025-08-01T12:52:24Z")
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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### Author:  [@fricklerhandwerk](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/fricklerhandwerk)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/2 "2025-08-01T13:10:27Z")
Great idea, I’d also appreciate more fine-grained topics to follow or post to.
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### Author:  [@ttamttam1](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/ttamttam1)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/3 "2025-08-09T19:01:50Z")
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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### Author:  [@Tmplt](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Tmplt)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 6:21am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/4 "2025-08-12T06:21:28Z")
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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### Author:  [@jeff-hykin](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jeff-hykin)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/5 "2025-08-26T15:21:58Z")
@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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### Author:  [@Infinisil](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Infinisil)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/6 "2025-08-26T15:23:28Z")
Check [org/doc/discourse.md at 09b6c21458ac208959683a0886433c51d876d26b · NixOS/org · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/org/blob/09b6c21458ac208959683a0886433c51d876d26b/doc/discourse.md) 🙂
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### Author:  [@jeff-hykin](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jeff-hykin)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/7 "2025-08-26T15:28:41Z")
@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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### Author:  [@hexa](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/hexa)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/8 "2025-08-26T17:33:45Z")
Thanks for the proposal. We’re thinking this through and will be getting back to you in a few days.
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### Author:  [@jeff-hykin](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jeff-hykin)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/9 "2025-09-10T14:57:11Z")
Just a friendly check-in on this. No worries if it got delayed
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### Author:  [@jeff-hykin](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jeff-hykin)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/10 "2025-10-08T15:24:02Z")
@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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### Author:  [@hexa](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/hexa)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/11 "2025-10-08T15:27:17Z")
Sorry, this got caught up in the governance kerfuffle. I’ll poke whoever remains to make a call.
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### Author:  [@jeff-hykin](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jeff-hykin)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/12 "2025-11-01T12:21:10Z")
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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### Author:  [@jeff-hykin](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jeff-hykin)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-announcement-subcategories-tool-annoucements-writeup/67471/13 "2026-01-14T19:06:11Z")
@hex another friendly ping 😅 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.