Discourse Meta: Using topic templates for categories
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- Channels: Community, Documentation, Product, Support
- Stage tags: community ops, faster triage, first-response quality, forum hygiene, intake quality, self-serve conversion, support intake, support ops
- Essay categories: community-led growth, documentation, support-led growth
- Niches: AI products, customer support software, developer tools, open-source software, SaaS
Cited GrowthDex tactics
- Category topic templates for cleaner support intakeGive support and bug-report categories a topic template so new threads arrive with the version, setup, and failure details the team actually needs.
- Discourse topic template before support post submitPrefill support categories with the fields you actually need so bug reports and setup questions arrive with enough context to answer on the first pass.
Cited GrowthDex essays
- The support forum should stop acting like a chat roomcommunity-led growth, support-led growth, documentation · 2026-05-29T23:20:00Z
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