How to choose or suggest an article topic

In Articles, topics open collections about a particular subject. They appear in a separate block on larger screens and as buttons above the feed on phones. The number beside a topic counts published articles, not views.

A public topic has its own page. Readers can reach it from the topic list or a link beside an article. A topic helps people find content but does not guarantee extra views.

Open the editor: How to write an article. Enter a title and at least 300 characters of body text. After a pause of about two seconds, the site requests a suggestion.

It may choose an existing topic, propose a new one or leave the field unchanged. Selected automatically means the site made the choice. If no suggestion appears, keep writing or choose a topic yourself.

Until you make a manual choice, changing the title or substantially changing the text length may trigger another suggestion. It does not run after every corrected letter.

Here is an example of the field. Choose your topic in the article editor.

Open Topic and review the options.

If the automatic suggestion fits, leave it. To make the choice yours, select the row yourself, even if it is already suggested.

An untouched field differs from explicitly choosing No topic. If you never chose anything, the site may try to assign a topic after publication. It will not override your explicit No topic choice.

1. Select New topic… beside the field.
2. Enter a name of 2–60 characters. Use a short category such as First work experience rather than your full article title.
3. Optionally add a description of up to 300 characters, explaining what belongs here.
4. Select Create.

If the site suggests a similar topic, choose Use it when the meaning matches. Use Create mine only for a genuinely different subject. An exact match may select the existing topic immediately.

After choosing the new topic, save the article itself. Creating a topic separately does not save all the editor's text.

A topic you create through New topic… normally starts under review. You can use it in your editor, but it is not a public category until approved. You can have at most 5 of your own topics under review on one site at a time.

An automatic New topic: … proposal is resolved when you save the article. If no match exists, the site normally creates it without the manual review queue. If a matching topic exists, it is reused and may keep its current status.

An administrator can approve, hide or merge topics. Merging moves articles to the chosen shared topic, so a category's name may change later.

Topic review and article review are separate processes. A topic under review does not itself mean the article was rejected. See Moderation for publication rules.

Open My articles → article menu → Edit. Select another topic or No topic, then Save.

Changing only the topic keeps a published article visible without sending it back for moderation. Changing the text, title, cover or company at the same time may require another review.

If an error persists, contact support with the article, topic name and error text. For statistics, see Views and likes.