# Category Intersections

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-intersections/79932>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 14, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-intersections/79932 "2017-09-14T15:11:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-intersections/79932/1 "2017-09-14T15:11:06Z")

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A simpler way of describing [what’s being asked for here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-bundles-aka-category-intersections/35278/) is that this would essentially mean supporting intersection pages for categories, same as we already do for tags:

> [@Tag intersections page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-intersections-page/47952):
>
> I’m currently working with @bedhed in the preliminary stages of working on the bidirectional nav / Table of Contents features described [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-fullstack-dev-for-bidimensionnal-navigation/45388/5). One slightly large piece missing from this work is a page which could display an ‘intersection’ of tags, (ie, topics which have both the ‘pr-welcome’ and ‘votes-friendly’ tags). A mockup is here: Two questions: Is this a change that would be welcome / tolerated in core, if it were true that it didn’t change any existing functionality? (This s…

So just like we’re currently able to do this with tags:

```
https://meta.discourse.org/tags/intersection/docker/email

```

This feature request asks for the ability to do something like this with categories:

```
https://meta.discourse.org/categories/intersection/support/howto

```

although ideally the category intersection wouldn’t need to be defined by a series of categories listed in the URL, but rather a single identifier:

```
https://meta.discourse.org/categories/{custom-name}

```

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There’s not a strong use case for it here on Meta, but [discourse.codecombat.com](http://discourse.codecombat.com) could really use this for their [“Other Languages” category](https://discourse.codecombat.com/c/other-languages). That’d allow them to use sub-categories for each of their language categories, while still being able to bundle those language-specific categories together.

The Rust community could possibly merge their users and internals forums, which would be a big win.

Doing this properly does involve more UX work than the tags equivalent though.

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