# Can we make inline links to subcategories more concise?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-inline-links-to-subcategories-more-concise/397217
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** hashtag-autocomplete, meta-redesign-2026
**Created:** [February 27, 2026, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-inline-links-to-subcategories-more-concise/397217 "2026-02-27T01:43:15Z")
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### Author: ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 5:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-inline-links-to-subcategories-more-concise/397217/18 "2026-09-03T05:02:18Z")

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I’ve made a very rough draft PR here, @awesomerobot can you please maybe work on it with what you think would be some nice UI elements? I basically just set up the very basic skeleton for it to work, and to not show for private categories if the user has no access:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/43157>
>
> This PR introduces a category floating card, similar to the user card,
> behind a…n upcoming change ("Enable category hashtag cards")
> 
> This card will show the category title, icon/emoji,
> description, as well as links to any parent categories. Users with
> permission can see the "Edit description" button, as well as the "New Topic"
> button, which is also category context dependent (e.g. Events categories
> will have a "New Event" button).
> 
> Also shown in the card is a list of the 3 latest categories in the topic.
> 
> Users without permission to see a category will simply follow the
> hashtag link, and see no card.
> 
> \<img width="660" height="335" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a127fdf6-462a-4ebf-bd2a-b27fc29565c2" /\>
> 
> \<img width="658" height="220" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acea2a2c-cfb4-4d69-ac0d-7ad4f252a670" /\>
> 
> In addition, since it's now easier to differentiate categories with
> the same name, we are also removing the verbose "Parent \> Child"
> labelling for category hashtags.
> 
> \*\*Before\*\*
> 
> \<img width="805" height="259" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5bd0c57b-228b-494e-9ebf-df012c5c598f" /\>
> 
> \*\*After\*\*
> 
> \<img width="805" height="268" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c67fc7df-3c0b-435c-ac8a-6fe748c85b63" /\>

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