The new category system has been installed

Question

I have installed the new category system of PhysicsOverflow. It is dedicated mainly for a hierarchical storage of submissions in the review section. If you are interested in technical details, I have published some details on our blog. It was a very large change, it was difficult to test all use-cases and therefore, there may still be minor bugs. If you observe any irregularities, please report them as answers to this question.

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This was heroic work, one cannot thank you enough, +1 is a meager reward for such effort. I have one question--- does the nested set model mean that every new question requires an update to the whole database, or simply that adding a new category requires this? I can see that adding a new category would be a rare event, but I hope that inserting a question is no slower now than in the past.

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Inserting a question will even be faster than before, because only the category-ID has to be stored to the post. Before, the whole path to the root (up to four entries) had to be computed and stored. Inserting a category or moving a category to a new parent requires more computation, however this will be required much less frequent than posting. Additionally, I assume it will almost not perceptible until we have 5000+ categories.

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For the sake of getting you some recognition for this, extensions, and bugfixes, perhaps you should add your code as a formal branch of the Q2A GitHub. I assume all sites who use Q2A will eventually switch to this, because it is simply better.
 

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It works amazingly well, thanks! So creating a new category works the same way, right?

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@dimension10 Yes, adding categories or modifying them by superadmins works very similar as before, just with the new user interface. Don't be afraid to get a long computation time, with the actual number of categories, modifications require some microseconds.

Answer 1

It looks to me that the icons for categories with sub-directories have been given a greenish tone for emphasis.

I think this is unnecessary since the prefixed blue triangles emphasize this already, and spoils a little the minimalistic design of the site.

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Hm, I rather like how it looks, the green for the choosen category looks nice to me. But different people like different styles etc of course.