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Refs #2581. Categories will now be Apify-assigned, not creator-selected.

Removes the Categories field from the publish steps in publish.mdx and adds a short Categories subsection explaining the new behaviour and how creators can dispute their assignment via Apify support.

Open questions for Honza Kuželík (Discovery) — blocking final review

  • Rollout timing. When does the creator-side UI for selecting categories actually go away? The doc edit lands creators "no field to select" — if Console still shows it for a window, we need to either gate this PR on the UI removal or add a temporary "rolling out" admonition.
  • REST API surface. Does categories on acts-post / act-put still accept creator writes, get ignored, or get rejected? Affects whether to mark the parameter deprecated in the OpenAPI spec in a follow-up.
  • Support channel. I used https://apify.com/contact (the canonical pattern in other publishing pages). Confirm that's the right route for category disputes vs. a specific email/form.

Follow-ups (separate PRs, not this one)

  • images/actor-display-information.webp will need re-capture once the Categories field is gone from Console.
  • If creator writes to categories are being dropped, update the OpenAPI parameter doc on acts-post / act-put.

Draft until the three questions above are confirmed.

Remove the "Categories" field from the "Make your Actor public" steps;
creators no longer pick categories from Console. Add a short Categories
subsection explaining that Apify assigns categories and pointing to
support for disputes.

Refs #2581.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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⏳ Preview for this PR (commit e08175a) is building (see action run).

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