# Category Sidebar
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 13, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932 "2018-03-13T23:44:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@pux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pux)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/1 "2018-03-13T23:44:46Z")
Hello Discourse Team,
I’m a user of this wonderful software on the [Manjaro](https://forum.manjaro.org/) Forum.
If I click on the Latest tab I would love to be able to choose which sub categories are shown on the fly.
Like for example check/uncheck tick-boxes on a sidebar to include/exclude Off Topic and so on.
What do you think?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/2 "2018-03-13T23:47:16Z")
Hi @pux
You can already suppress categories from the latest list. Check out the category settings.
Edit: Oh, do you mean as a user? Or an admin?
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### Author:  [@pux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pux)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/3 "2018-03-13T23:48:20Z")
Hello @HAWK and thanks for the quick reply. I mean as a user.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/4 "2018-03-13T23:49:15Z")
Right. Ignore me then. You can’t currently do that. 🙂
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### Author:  [@pux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pux)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 11:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/5 "2018-03-13T23:51:12Z")
I did hope to make a useful feature request and thought I start here, or is it better doing that directly on Github?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/6 "2018-03-14T00:13:56Z")
Nope, you’ve done exactly the right thing. I initially misunderstood your request.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 3:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/7 "2018-03-14T03:24:23Z")
I think you’re looking for something along these lines:
> [@Proposing a left-aligned slide out hamburger menu](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposing-a-left-aligned-slide-out-hamburger-menu/30287):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Full height, slide out hamburger menu](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-height-slide-out-hamburger-menu/29789/): Here, I will make my argument in support of the [left-aligned hamburger menu convention](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-height-slide-out-hamburger-menu/29789/32), combined with a reworking of Discourse’s default navigation of index pages. Upon entering [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org), you would see this: Drilling into a Category, you see this: Hamburger menu has absorbed the top sub-navigation. Hamburger menu is shown by default on index pages (on Desktop, not Mobile) Fills the same nee…
> [@Idea for new navigation scheme to re-purpose the hamburger](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-for-new-navigation-scheme-to-re-purpose-the-hamburger/32673):
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> I’ve been thinking over the navigational scheme of Discourse, especially with the new [hamburger menu](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-on-new-hamburger-menu/32519), and the issues with the hamburger menu that have been highlighted recently in other threads. I’d like to present another proposal for a potential re-architecture of the page navigation. Fix the issues with the hamburger First, the potential issues of the hamburger menu that I’d like to fix: Icon ambiguous or unknown: Many users just don’t get the icon without training. No information scen…
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/8 "2018-03-14T03:43:35Z")
Do those solutions allow a _user_ to customise their feed though? I think that’s the basis of this request.
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### Author:  [@pux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pux)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/9 "2018-03-14T03:57:38Z")
Exactly, @HAWK your first answer was already, what I was looking for.
I don’t know if you have the ability to suppress categories from the latest list on the fly as a site admin, without to go through settings first or mute categories, but that would hopefully better describe what my thought was.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/10 "2018-03-14T04:02:13Z")
Ah, well if the self-filtering part of it is what’s most important to you then maybe this is what you’re looking for:
> [@Favorites - select your favorite categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/favorites-build-a-topic-list-of-your-favorite-topics/81959):
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> Hello everyone, This plugin lets users select their favorite categories and view only topics from their favorite categories. This plugin is the implementation of the idea mentioned [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-tabs-for-user-customizeable-saved-filters/40953) and drafted as a specification [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-tabs-for-user-customizeable-saved-filters/40953/20). How to use The user decides which categories he likes the most and marks them as favorite. This can be done from the Categories view. The user can also modify his favorites list from the User Preferences view. warning Due to a limitation of Discours…
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### Author:  [@pux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pux)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-sidebar/82932/11 "2018-03-14T04:32:00Z")
This looks interesting and I will have to try it first, before I can say something. Thank You!
But it also looks a bit restrictive to me.
I was thinking about something like a drop-down menu on the Latest list where you can check/uncheck sub categories, or maybe something like that as a sidebar.
If you check or uncheck a category, the Latest list reloads with the new selection.
For example I would like to be able to get a quick overview over some chosen categories which I’m interested in right now, but maybe not tomorrow, but also be able to switch back to all latest topics, by pressing a default button or something like that.
Hope that makes more sense 🙂