<![CDATA[Assigning a thread to a remote category]]>Hello everyone,
I'm the administrator of a NodeBB instance (4.9.1) and I also display other remote categories within that instance (the communities of a Lemmy instance I manage).

I would like to point out that I have not opened an issue on Github because I am not sure whether the problem in question is a bug or just the consequence of a deliberate choice by the developers.

I've noticed that sometimes, when a Fediverse user posts a mention of a Lemmy community, while the Lemmy server correctly categorizes that conversation, the NodeBB server displaying the remote category may not "understand" that the post belongs to the community in question.

In the past, when I noticed these anomalies, I could resolve the issue by "moving the thread" using my administrator privileges. When I moved the thread, I was only shown the local category tree, but I could search for remote categories using the search function.

Not anymore.

Has something changed, or am I misremembering?

I hope I explained myself correctly, but since I use an automatic translator, I may have explained the problem incorrectly.

]]>https://postcall.pub/topic/655b0fb3-c0d9-4831-8e2e-7b04c66a26ae/assigning-a-thread-to-a-remote-categoryRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 15:10:45 GMTMon, 02 Mar 2026 15:18:03 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Assigning a thread to a remote category on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:55:35 GMT]]>@informapirata sorry, I have not taken a look at this issue yet.

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/106909https://postcall.pub/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/106909Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:55:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Assigning a thread to a remote category on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:43 GMT]]>Good evening, @julian !
Were you finally able to come up with a solution for this issue? Or do you think the possible solutions would have a negative impact on the system?

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/106907https://postcall.pub/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/106907Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Assigning a thread to a remote category on Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:21:24 GMT]]>Thanks for the reply @julian !
I've created an issue on Github: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/14040

I hope my English translathane allowed me to be understandable

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/106718https://postcall.pub/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/106718Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:21:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Assigning a thread to a remote category on Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:15:27 GMT]]>> @informapirata said:
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> I've noticed that sometimes, when a Fediverse user posts a mention of a Lemmy community, while the Lemmy server correctly categorizes that conversation, the NodeBB server displaying the remote category may not "understand" that the post belongs to the community in question.

This is a bit of an edge case, worth opening an issue for.

On the wider fediverse it is possible to create topics by mentioning the category. Depending on software, that published activity doesn't actually contain the community, and if your NodeBB sees that post first, then it won't have a category assigned to it.

I can try patching around that behaviour.

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/106714https://postcall.pub/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/106714Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:15:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Assigning a thread to a remote category on Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:37:39 GMT]]>Can you check if the category you are searching is in the categories:name sorted set? In mongodb it would be.

db.objects.find({_key: "categories:name"});

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