diff --git a/app/(app)/feedback/page.tsx b/app/(app)/feedback/page.tsx
index d497bdfc..231dc5e2 100644
--- a/app/(app)/feedback/page.tsx
+++ b/app/(app)/feedback/page.tsx
@@ -9,23 +9,31 @@
  * Authed visitors don't see the contact-email field — the BFF reads
  * their account email from the session cookie. Anonymous visitors get
  * the field and must fill it in so we have a reply path.
+ *
+ * Categories are managed in the admin panel and loaded from the BFF. If
+ * that request fails the form falls back to the original four, so it can
+ * always be submitted.
  */
 
-import { useState } from "react";
+import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import Link from "next/link";
 import { useRouter } from "next/navigation";
 import { ArrowLeft, MessageSquare, Send } from "lucide-react";
 import { toast } from "sonner";
-import { feedback as feedbackAPI, SocialError } from "@/lib/social";
+import {
+  feedback as feedbackAPI,
+  SocialError,
+  type FeedbackCategory,
+} from "@/lib/social";
 import { useAuth } from "@/components/auth/auth-provider";
 
-type Category = "bug" | "feature" | "general" | "other";
-
-const CATEGORIES: { value: Category; label: string; description: string }[] = [
-  { value: "general", label: "General feedback", description: "Thoughts, impressions, suggestions — anything else." },
-  { value: "bug", label: "Bug report", description: "Something is broken or behaving unexpectedly." },
-  { value: "feature", label: "Feature request", description: "An idea for something new on the site." },
-  { value: "other", label: "Other", description: "Doesn't fit the above? Use this." },
+// Used only if the categories can't be loaded — the original four, which
+// the BFF seeds and keeps accepting unless an admin archives them.
+const FALLBACK_CATEGORIES: FeedbackCategory[] = [
+  { key: "general", label: "General feedback", description: "Thoughts, impressions, suggestions — anything else." },
+  { key: "bug", label: "Bug report", description: "Something is broken or behaving unexpectedly." },
+  { key: "feature", label: "Feature request", description: "An idea for something new on the site." },
+  { key: "other", label: "Other", description: "Doesn't fit the above? Use this." },
 ];
 
 export default function FeedbackPage() {
@@ -33,7 +41,28 @@ export default function FeedbackPage() {
   const { user, loading } = useAuth();
   const authed = !loading && !!user;
 
-  const [category, setCategory] = useState<Category>("general");
+  const [categories, setCategories] =
+    useState<FeedbackCategory[]>(FALLBACK_CATEGORIES);
+  // Empty until chosen: the first category on the form.
+  const [picked, setPicked] = useState("");
+  const category = categories.some((c) => c.key === picked)
+    ? picked
+    : (categories[0]?.key ?? "");
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    let cancelled = false;
+    feedbackAPI
+      .categories()
+      .then((list) => {
+        if (!cancelled && list?.length) setCategories(list);
+      })
+      .catch(() => {
+        /* keep the fallback list */
+      });
+    return () => {
+      cancelled = true;
+    };
+  }, []);
   const [message, setMessage] = useState("");
   const [contactEmail, setContactEmail] = useState("");
   const [submitting, setSubmitting] = useState(false);
@@ -72,7 +101,7 @@ export default function FeedbackPage() {
     }
   }
 
-  const selected = CATEGORIES.find((c) => c.value === category);
+  const selected = categories.find((c) => c.key === category);
 
   return (
     <main className="flex-1 max-w-xl w-full mx-auto px-4 sm:px-6 py-10 sm:py-14">
@@ -111,12 +140,12 @@ export default function FeedbackPage() {
           <select
             id="category"
             value={category}
-            onChange={(e) => setCategory(e.target.value as Category)}
+            onChange={(e) => setPicked(e.target.value)}
             className="mt-1.5 h-10 w-full rounded-lg border border-border bg-card px-3 text-sm text-foreground focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-ring"
             disabled={submitting}
           >
-            {CATEGORIES.map((c) => (
-              <option key={c.value} value={c.value}>{c.label}</option>
+            {categories.map((c) => (
+              <option key={c.key} value={c.key}>{c.label}</option>
             ))}
           </select>
           <p className="mt-1 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
diff --git a/app/(app)/settings/feedbacks/page.tsx b/app/(app)/settings/feedbacks/page.tsx
index ecdd4a58..d5b829a4 100644
--- a/app/(app)/settings/feedbacks/page.tsx
+++ b/app/(app)/settings/feedbacks/page.tsx
@@ -152,7 +152,9 @@ export default function FeedbacksPage() {
 function FeedbackCard({ feedback: f }: { feedback: Feedback }) {
   const status = statusOf(f);
   const meta = STATUS_META[status];
-  const category = CATEGORY_LABEL[f.category] ?? f.category;
+  // The server's label tracks renames in the admin; the map covers an older
+  // BFF that doesn't send one yet.
+  const category = f.category_label || CATEGORY_LABEL[f.category] || f.category;
 
   return (
     <li className="rounded-xl border border-border bg-card p-4 sm:p-5">
diff --git a/lib/social.ts b/lib/social.ts
index 70393b0b..52e43413 100644
--- a/lib/social.ts
+++ b/lib/social.ts
@@ -212,6 +212,8 @@ export type Feedback = {
   id: string;
   user_id?: string;
   category: string;
+  /** The category's current display name (renames apply to past feedback). */
+  category_label?: string;
   message: string;
   contact_email?: string;
   created_at: string;
@@ -560,13 +562,25 @@ export const collections = {
 
 // ─── Feedback ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+/** One option on the /feedback form, managed from the admin panel. */
+export type FeedbackCategory = {
+  key: string;
+  label: string;
+  description: string;
+};
+
 export const feedback = {
+  /** The form's categories, in order. Public. */
+  categories() {
+    return call<FeedbackCategory[]>("/feedback/categories");
+  },
   /** Submit a /feedback page entry. When the viewer is signed in the
    *  BFF captures their user_id automatically via the auth cookie —
    *  the form doesn't ask for it. `contact_email` is required only
    *  for anonymous submissions; the BFF re-enforces that on its end. */
   submit(input: {
-    category: "bug" | "feature" | "general" | "other";
+    /** A FeedbackCategory key. */
+    category: string;
     message: string;
     contact_email?: string;
   }) {