Groups, forums and rooms

# Forums and categories

Use a forum with separate categories for longer discussions.

-   Create categories, each with its own name, description, color and access rules.
-   Organize posts into topics with reply threads.
-   Move a topic to another category in the same group.

![Riverside Garden forum filtered to Garden projects, with a tag filter, a Newest sort control and a pinned welcome topic.](https://welley.com/assets/media/forum-overview-2000.56f6f9a2.webp)

The forum in category view, with the pinned welcome topic first. The category and tag filters and the sort control sit above it.

![Riverside Garden forum topics with categories, tags, reply counts, views, participant avatars and emoji reaction chips.](https://welley.com/assets/media/forum-topics-demo-2000.8b8bf4bc.webp)

For each topic, the list shows its category, tags, replies, views, participants and emoji reactions.

![The forum categories page lists Garden projects and Growing advice with their descriptions, colors and edit controls.](https://welley.com/assets/media/forum-categories-demo-2000.8ca58251.webp)

Group staff manage the forum categories and give each one a name, a description and a color.

![A Riverside Garden forum topic about the Saturday workday, with a numbered plan, reaction chips, a reply composer and a reply from Sam Rivera.](https://welley.com/assets/media/forum-thread-demo-1792.fe41de2f.webp)

A forum topic keeps the plan, the reactions and the replies of a discussion in one place.

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