# All links to categories broken?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144 "2023-11-01T19:07:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/1 "2023-11-01T19:07:17Z")
Is anyone else on HOSTED DISCOURSE seeing this? …I emailed the team an hour ago, but haven’t heard anything yet.
for example, all the links from my categories page, [Categories - Podtalk Community](https://forum.podcaster.community/categories) simply lead to this error
error from safari inspector…
repro in Chrome, not logged in as any user…
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/2 "2023-11-01T19:22:57Z")
Ooof. Sorry for the disruption here. Let me see if I can find something out. 👍
If anyone else is experiencing it please shout out. 🙏
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/3 "2023-11-01T19:24:32Z")
I have a forum on a hosted instance and I am not seeing this error.
I notice it isn’t happening in [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true) on your forum, so it is likely a plugin or component. 🤔
Have you made any changes lately?
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/6 "2023-11-01T19:36:10Z")
I haven’t made changes to components recently.
I did just create a new category… which led to me discovering the problem. So maybe there’s an odd sideeffect to cat creation . . .
I do have two custom components installed (that I wrote)… disabling those didn’t fix the problem. But works-in-safe-mode is a start at troubleshooting.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/8 "2023-11-01T19:37:53Z")
I bet it’s this
> [@November 2023 - refactoring Discovery routes: how will it affect my theme/plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/november-2023-refactoring-discovery-routes-how-will-it-affect-my-theme-plugin/282816/2):
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> We’ll be expanding testing of this change across our hosting this week, with the aim of merging into `main`/`tests-passed` early next week (6th November).
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/9 "2023-11-01T20:08:02Z")
4 posts were split to a new topic: [Problem with calendar plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-with-calendar-plugin/284150)
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/13 "2023-11-01T19:55:50Z")
OP’s error (that’s me) was for both logged-in as an admin user, and for anons.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/14 "2023-11-01T20:32:32Z")
After a little discussion in PM, we think we’ve tracked it to the [Topic List Previews (TLP)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews-theme-component/209973) (cc. @merefield 🤞)
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/15 "2023-11-01T20:57:19Z")
> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> we think we’ve tracked it to the [Topic List Previews Theme Component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews-theme-component/209973)
I have that component installed. Disabling it just resolved the category-links-not-working issue
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/16 "2023-11-01T21:28:21Z")
Discourse team members have rightly pointed out (in pm) that that component is third-party…
I’m going to look into switching to the [Topic List Thumbnails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-thumbnails/150602) and [Topic List Excerpts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-excerpts/151520) components.
…and I’ve moved this over to #Support as it’s not a bug [in Discourse].
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/17 "2023-11-02T15:24:32Z")
Just closing the loop here - @merefield has now made the necessary updates to the Pavilion theme component, so it should work well both before and after the incoming core change 😍
[https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-tc-topic-list-previews/pull/31](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-tc-topic-list-previews/pull/31)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-links-to-categories-broken/284144/18 "2023-12-02T15:24:56Z")
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