# Category creep and information overload

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-creep-and-information-overload/62493>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [11 مايو 2017، 8:37ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-creep-and-information-overload/62493 "2017-05-11T08:37:27Z")\
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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:** [28 أغسطس 2017، 9:48ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-creep-and-information-overload/62493/13 "2017-08-28T09:48:22Z")

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This doesn’t make sense to me. Traditionally the way this is done on large forums is that you only ever visit a few sub-forums (categories, in Discourse). So you don’t need to see or care what is going on in the other 14 categories, just visit the two you care about. Why would you need to mute what you never see anyway?

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