Managing categories for discussions in your repository

You can categorize the discussions in your repository to organize conversations for your community members, and you can choose a format for each category.

Repository administrators and people with write or greater access to a repository can enable discussions in the repository.

Discussions are an open forum for conversation among maintainers and the community for a project on GitHub. All discussions must be created in a category, and repository administrators and maintainers define the categories for a repository. Categories can contain open-ended conversations, or conversations with a question/answer format.

Each category must have a unique name and emoji pairing, and can be accompanied by a detailed description stating its purpose. Categories help maintainers organize how conversations are filed and are customizable to help distinguish categories that are Q&A or more open-ended conversations.Each repository can have up to 10 categories.

For more information, see "About discussions."

Default categories

Category	Purpose	Type
#️⃣ General	Anything and everything relevant to the project	Open-ended discussion
💡Ideas	Ideas to change or improve the project	Open-ended discussion
🙏 Q&A	Questions for the community to answer, with a question/answer format	Question and Answer
🙌 Show and tell	Creations, experiments, or tests relevant to the project	Open-ended discussion

Creating a category

On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
Under your repository name, click Discussions.
To the right of "Categories", click .
Click New category.
Edit the emoji, title, description, and discussion format for the category. For more information about discussion formats, see "About discussions."
Click Create.

Editing a category

You can edit a category to change the category's emoji, title, description, and discussion format.

On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
Under your repository name, click Discussions.
To the right of a category in the list, click .
Edit the emoji, title, description, and discussion format for the category. For more information about discussion formats, see "About discussions."
Click Save changes.

Deleting a category

When you delete a category, GitHub will move all discussions in the deleted category to an existing category that you choose.

On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
Under your repository name, click Discussions.
To the right of a category in the list, click .
Use the drop-down menu, and choose a new category for any discussions in the category you're deleting.
Click Delete & Move.