# Differences beween Categories and sub-Categories?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/differences-beween-categories-and-sub-categories/382183
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 10, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/differences-beween-categories-and-sub-categories/382183 "2025-09-10T12:30:23Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/differences-beween-categories-and-sub-categories/382183/3 "2025-09-10T12:55:20Z")

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Usually, when you look at all topics from a category, you also see the topics in the subcategories. For example, when you look at #announcements, you also see the topics in #announcements:blog. Of course, you can use the subcategory filter and select “no subcategories” to exclude them or change the category settings so that subcategories are hidden by default. But in general, a parent category can also work to group several subcategories, like for example #Documentation does.

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