# Create an Off-topic category?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/create-an-off-topic-category/2920>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [6 September 2018 19:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/create-an-off-topic-category/2920 "2018-09-06T19:37:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [6 September 2018 19:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/create-an-off-topic-category/2920/1 "2018-09-06T19:37:54Z")

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FTAOD I'm not counting forum requests in my September moratorium 🙂  
Should there be an off-topic category (not for OT OT but for closely related #IoT that Node-RED is used with)

e.g I have a friend who wants to discuss finding a service something like [https://io.adafruit.com/](https://io.adafruit.com/) that they can send mqtt messages to using Node-RED and use their easy dashboard UI instead of hosting their own one

Yes/no/maybe/depends/never?

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**Author:** ![Paul-Reed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/paul-reed/32/66906_2.png) [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)\
**Post date:** [6 September 2018 19:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/create-an-off-topic-category/2920/2 "2018-09-06T19:42:01Z")

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In NR Slack it's called 'random'...

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [6 September 2018 19:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/create-an-off-topic-category/2920/3 "2018-09-06T19:56:11Z")

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cough - while your here 🙂

> [@\[node-red-contrib-simpletime\]mydate](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-simpletime-mydate/2900/6):
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> aah - fair enough then slight_smile I wouldn't want to do that as I too, don't want it to be "alittlelessthansimple' node slight_smile