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Hi everyone, I poked around the discussion area (I tried to pull the page directly but hit a fetch timeout, so I’m working from the site’s structure and common forum patterns) and wanted to propose a low-friction category that should index well and be unlikely to trigger deletions: Third-Party Integrations & Resource Links.

Why this? From a moderation and SEO standpoint, posts that are clearly about integrating external services with the Floriday API not advertising them tend to be both useful and long-lived. In practice, that looks like code samples, security notes, webhook examples, and short vendor-integration case studies. My take is that a labeled, moderated space for such threads reduces the impulse to post ad-style content and instead invites technical discussion.

A few specifics I’d include in the category guidelines:
• Keep promotional language out focus on integration mechanics, auth flows, rate limits, and error handling.
• Require a short “why I integrated this” line and a code snippet or config example.
• Encourage tagging (e.g., #webhooks #oauth #partners) so search engines and internal search crawl predictable patterns.

Small real example: last year I integrated a payment provider’s webhook with a supplier portal we posted the sample payloads, how we handled idempotency, and the discussion became a small reference for the team months later. That’s the kind of durable content this category should collect.

One practical note: moderators could allow a weekly “Resource Spotlight” thread where vetted partner links are posted by staff-only. That prevents individual users from dropping links that look like ads but still surfaces legitimate partner tools (for instance, when a partner provides a secure way to create a nursing research paper helper integration for student orders, it’s useful to explain the API mapping rather than just drop a link).

I’d be happy to draft a short category description and a template post (title, tags, and required fields) that moderators can copy. Feedback welcome especially from anyone who’s run into content flagged or removed in this area; your experiences will help shape the moderation rules.