Community site category webpart discussion problem

We have a community site with the category webpart. We have 5 category tiles and all of these contains there own discussion boards. Everything worked fine in the beginning but then something happend. The problem that occured is that if i post a
discussion in one of these category that post shows up in all categorys. If I add a webpart in one category all categorys get the webpart. very strange!
Any idea what to do? I thought that I could try to deactive the community site feature and then re-activate it again but afraid that all discussions will be lost?
Grateful for all help I can get.

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that posts showed up in all categorys.
I try to reproduce the issue, however, everything works well.
If we deactive and reactive the community site feature, it will remain the posts.
Please make sure you don’t define the default value of the Category column to all in the Disscussion List.
If you define the default value to all, it can add post to all categorys.
If not, please make sure the Category is correct when you create new post in the discussion board.
Please check whether the What's happening web part stores the correct data.
In addition, I recommend to create a new Community site to check whether it works well.
More information:
SharePoint 2013: Social Features, Community Site
Best Regards,
Linda Li
Linda Li
TechNet Community Support

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