User blog comment:Mira Laime/Introducing long-awaited Discussions updates/@comment-26823411-20190402170415/@comment-26339491-20190402181822

The reason for this change is that we expect to add more posting options in the future - for example article tagging. With just one step during post creation, it might eventually become difficult to make it all fit and still have a clean interface.

Another important reason is that we wanted to provide users with a preview of their post to facility a higher quality of content in general. If you have to tap or click twice rather than hitting "Publish" once, our hope is that users will put just a little more thought into what they're publishing.

In addition, we found that lots of users didn't use the category selection very well. They overlooked it entirely or chose the wrong category. Now that category selection happens after you type your post, we hope to make it more obvious that category selection is necessary, and that by that point, users will be aware more keenly of which category their post belongs in.