Hi! Please tell me, is it possible to implement infinite scrolling for the category section somehow? If there are a lot of subcategories and categories, the page starts loading for a long time.

Yes, of course. I have a lot more subcategories. I know it’s a lot. https://proautoclub.ru/

You’d still face issues once the categories are listed when you’d scroll. I’d use tags in your case.

You have 1437 categories. That is not recommended. [image] What's the maximum number of categories we can have? 500 to 1000 is safe If you need more consider tags Additionally you can have a very large number of groups [image] What's the maximum number of categories we can have? Honestly…

Yes, I understand that this is a lot, but I would like to leave it in this form, without tags. Perhaps there is a way to hide subcategories from the main page, or will it require large code changes?

Yeah I was assuming box layout, in which case there’s less to render if you mute. Now I’ve seen it’s the list view the whole thing makes more sense. Definitely agree that tags is the way to go here. The watched words functionality is a great help as well. [image] If you definitely want to pursue …

[image] Amigo: Yes, I understand that this is a lot, but I would like to leave it in this form, without tags. I can understand that. But here, you’re basically using categories a way Discourse isn’t made for if I understand Falco’s message. I don’t know much about discourse development, I’m…

[image] Amigo: Yes, I understand that this is a lot, but I would like to leave it in this form, without tags. Everyone who knows how this software works thinks that you do not want to do that. A site about cars is literally the go-to example how to use tags: https://community.cartalk.com/ ( I…

Infinite scrolling for the category

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Tris20 (Tristan) February 16, 2022, 2:00pm 2

Can you show an example of this? I have about 40 Categories and face no issues. It may also help to mute the categories you don’t take part in.

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Infinite scrolling for the category

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