# Create hundreds or thousands groups/categories?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-hundreds-or-thousands-groups-categories/58823>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [10 Marzo 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-hundreds-or-thousands-groups-categories/58823 "2017-03-10T14:27:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [12 Marzo 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-hundreds-or-thousands-groups-categories/58823/12 "2017-03-12T22:24:01Z")

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An easy way to understand this problem is, imagine you have 10K categories.

Every admin has access to 10K categories.

- When they compose a new topic they can pick from the 10k categories.
- Hamburger menu contains categories, how is that going to look for them?
- The /categories page can become enormous and needs to ship huge amounts of data just to render.

It become a crippling problem for admins, if secured right and nobody can access more than say 100 groups then it may work, but admin would have a brutal experience.

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