# Allow users to star or favorite categories then list them at the top

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-star-or-favorite-categories-then-list-them-at-the-top/38643>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 28, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-star-or-favorite-categories-then-list-them-at-the-top/38643 "2016-01-28T19:05:25Z")\
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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 29, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-star-or-favorite-categories-then-list-them-at-the-top/38643/4 "2016-01-29T04:15:31Z")

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It would be more interesting if this category preference was learned automatically, e.g. this user only ever goes to the Sports category, ever… as measured by topic entry data, so show Sports at the top for them.

This was discussed a long time ago as something we wanted to build but have not had time.

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