# Allow switching of categories in a topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-switching-of-categories-in-a-topic/18999>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Agosto 18, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-switching-of-categories-in-a-topic/18999 "2014-08-18T12:33:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![stu1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stu1/32/114546_2.png) [@stu1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stu1)\
**Post date:** [Agosto 20, 2014, 9:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-switching-of-categories-in-a-topic/18999/8 "2014-08-20T09:44:07Z")

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True enough, but nav normally doesn’t go under those buttons.  
Perhaps I use categories more that average? for example on this site I frequently flip between feature, ux and bug to ensure I’m putting things in the right place.  
On my discourse, I use categories (and subcategories) to switch between events (it’s a message board for festivals). So I want to make the nav between these contexts as friction free as possible.  
Considering that we stick the current category to the top nav bar on the left, putting a pulldown control here instead would seem to make sense? You could even display the number of unread topics in these categories?

I had a look at other forums, and I didn’t find any that provided easy access to switch between categories. That doesn’t necessarily make it a good thing though!  
Do other people not switch between categories very often? Interested to find out if I am unique in navigating around like this?

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