What categories are available on Mopidy Discourse?

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Mopidy Discourse is the community forum for the extensible music server and related projects. It is organized into a handful of categories so that questions, project showcases, feature ideas, and development talk each have a home. If you need help with Mopidy or an extension, post in Help and support; if you want to show off something you built, use Show and tell. The categories below reflect what is currently listed on the forum.

Active categories

Category Purpose Topics
Help and support Ask for help with Mopidy and Mopidy extensions 306
Show and tell Show off your projects related to Mopidy 51
Ideas Ideas for Mopidy, extensions, and projects building upon Mopidy 21
Development Discussions related to the development of Mopidy and extensions 6
Misc Former primary category; new topics should go in more specific categories 1434
Meta About this forum, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it 15

Help and support

This is the place to ask for help with Mopidy and Mopidy extensions. It is the busiest of the support-oriented categories, so it is the right destination for troubleshooting and usage questions.

Show and tell

Use this category to show off your projects related to Mopidy. It is aimed at finished or in-progress work you want to share with the community.

Ideas

Post ideas for Mopidy, extensions, and projects building upon Mopidy here. This is for suggestions and proposals rather than support requests.

Development

Discussions related to the development of Mopidy and extensions belong here. Note the forum's guidance: usage should be discussed in Help and support, not in Development.

Misc

Misc used to be the primary category. The forum now asks that new topics be created in more specific categories instead.

Archived category

Pi MusicBox (archive)

Pi MusicBox was a Raspberry Pi distro built on Mopidy. It has been unmaintained since 2022, and this category is read-only. Its 943 topics remain available to read, but you cannot post new ones there.

Where should you post?

  • Need help using Mopidy or an extension → Help and support
  • Want to share a project → Show and tell
  • Have a suggestion for Mopidy or an extension → Ideas
  • Working on Mopidy or extension code → Development
  • Asking about the forum itself → Meta
  • Reading old Pi MusicBox threads → Pi MusicBox (archive), read-only

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