# Adding many categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-many-categories/198313>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 27, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-many-categories/198313 "2021-07-27T13:24:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-many-categories/198313/5 "2022-01-17T20:59:02Z")

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You will probably be better off with _tags_ than _categories_.. see

> **[It’s Time We Talked About Tags](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/10/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/)**
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> Consider the typical sections of a daily newspaper: Arts, Sports, Business, Travel, Local, and World. Any given article belongs to just one of those sections, and the content in each section is quite different, such that some people, for example, may...

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