# Category reorder is confused by identical or negative values

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-reorder-is-confused-by-identical-or-negative-values/33295
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [15 september 2015 om 16:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-reorder-is-confused-by-identical-or-negative-values/33295 "2015-09-15T16:11:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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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: [15 september 2015 om 16:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-reorder-is-confused-by-identical-or-negative-values/33295/1 "2015-09-15T16:11:47Z")

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The new visual category reordering UI currently allows some bad user inputs:

[http://erlend-sh.github.io/images/discourse-recat-bug.mp4](http://erlend-sh.github.io/images/discourse-recat-bug.mp4)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [15 september 2015 om 20:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-reorder-is-confused-by-identical-or-negative-values/33295/2 "2015-09-15T20:49:43Z")

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My call here is, nuke the numbers, add drag and drop, always re sequence

@codinghorror @riking

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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: [15 september 2015 om 21:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-reorder-is-confused-by-identical-or-negative-values/33295/3 "2015-09-15T21:38:24Z")

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Sure, I support that – @sam is the category reordering expert, whatever is easy is best.