The mirroring functionality was better suited for NodeBB before it supported remote categories. It's a little redundant now but still has value if the topics are cross-posted instead of moved. Unfortunately cross posting isn't quite available yet (nor have I thought through the various aspects of it). My recommendation for now is to pause category synchronization and use remote categories primarily.

decentered@social.wedistribute.org it's been awhile! Looking forward to it.

jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io I think it might be the Unicode escapes too. I don't think they're necessary.

m_f@discuss.online not directly, but there was a session at FediForum on Thursday that discussed the website and next steps for updating it. It's been stagnant for quite awhile but evan@cosocial.ca and j12t@j12t.social finally have write access to the repo and control of the domain.