What's the maximum number of categories we can have?

[jserre]

@sam

@Grayden_Shand

I’m curious what happens when you get up into the 1000+ categories range.

Honestly probably nothing terrible, unless you are admin and have access to 1000+ categories. At that point we would ship you every single category json in your first page, the categories page would get slow both server side and client side.

@sam if I understand correctly, assuming all users but admins have access to a limited number of categories (let’s say less than 20/user), the only consequence of having very large number of categories (10K, 20K… 100K) would be a hit (gravity TBD) on the performance of admin’s pages only (and even very specific pages: Home and Category pages). Users’ performance and experience would be unaffected.
Is that correct?