What Topics and Categories Can I Explore on 32-Bit Cafe?

32-Bit Cafe is a Discourse forum for website hobbyists and professionals, and its content is organized into a set of public categories you can browse without posting anything first. If you want to know where to start, the category that matches your interest is usually obvious from its name: Webweaving for building websites, Technology for general tech, Self-Hosting for running your own services, and so on. The sections below describe what each category is for, based on the forum's own category descriptions.

Categories for building and discussing websites

Webweaving

This is the core category for anything related to web development — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and accessibility. It's also the place to get feedback on a project you're working on, and to discuss a website, application, or small web service related to building websites. If your main interest is hand-coding or improving a personal site, this is likely your first stop.

Graphic Design

For everything related to graphics, pixels, layouts, and fonts. The category description frames it as the home for graphic design topics broadly, so expect discussion of visual and layout decisions rather than code.

Programming

This category is for programming languages outside the core web development languages. If you're working in something that isn't HTML/CSS/JavaScript, this is where that discussion belongs.

Categories for infrastructure and general tech

Self-Hosting

Anything related to self-hosting: a server under your stairs, shared hosting, a VPS, or the cloud. This is the category to check if you run — or want to run — your own services.

Technology

General technology discussion, new or old, from operating systems to gadgets. The category description signals a broad, informal scope rather than a narrow focus.

Categories for community, sharing, and help

Community-Made Projects

Where the community collaborates or gives feedback on projects. These can be projects you start solo or ones you want to work on with others. It's also the place to announce that you need volunteers or contributors for something you're building for 32-Bit Cafe.

Links Around the Web

For sharing links across the web that the community might be interested in. The convention here is specific: you start a new topic by dropping a link in the topic title.

Help

The place to raise help topics — the description uses the example of needing to learn how to centre a <div>. If you have a concrete question, this is where to ask it.

32-Bit Cafe Feedback & Questions

For discussing the Cafe itself: its organization, how it works, and how it can be improved.

Announcements

Where important announcements regarding 32-Bit Cafe are posted.

Community Wiki

A collection of wiki posts that anyone in the Cafe can edit once they reach the required trust level. It's meant for resources, lists, or community-curated posts that multiple members can edit and maintain.

Uncategorized

A catch-all with no dedicated purpose described.

Quick reference

How to choose where to start

• If you want to build or improve a website, start with Webweaving, then Graphic Design for visual work.
• If you want to run your own infrastructure, go to Self-Hosting.
• If you want to share something you found, use Links Around the Web and put the link in the topic title.
• If you want feedback or collaborators, use Community-Made Projects.
• If you have a specific problem, use Help.
• If you want to contribute to shared resources, look at Community Wiki — note that editing requires reaching a certain trust level, so new accounts may need to participate before they can edit.