Activities and Services filters do not provide clear definitions that are visible and understandable to visitors, service providers, and site managers.
As an example, review the "Academic Activities" category. It is basically a catch-all for a random selection of programs that fit primarily into other boxes (for instance, everything from afterschool, to childcare, to career support, to language instruction, to housing assistance and more). A majority of programs on Find It could probably argue they have academic components. Did we mean this broad of a definition when we created that topic? Or did we instead mean something more akin to "Events that take place primarily for the purpose of learning and for no other reason, such as lectures, book clubs, educational games, etc."? Perhaps it's somewhere in between, but because we don't define it for everyone, everyone puts there own definition on it. The result is filter that really isn't very good at finding anything. A parent contacted me today and asked for "Summer activities that have academics". I went to the Summer Camps category, because that was where a more complete list of "Summmer opportunities for kids" existed.
This brings up a larger topic which came up in a discussion we had a couple weeks ago --> does it even make sense to make the distinction between "Activities" and "Services". Most parents would argue that Summer Camps are a service because they need to send their kids somewhere if they work. Defining it as an activity may be putting it in an unnecessary box that has consequences we aren't even aware of.
Particularly problematic categories: Academic Activities, Community Events, STEAM, Summer Camps, Visual Arts, Young Child & Parent Activities.