# Different category and sub-category order behaviour

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/different-category-and-sub-category-order-behaviour/141183
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 10, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/different-category-and-sub-category-order-behaviour/141183 "2020-02-10T14:01:02Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/different-category-and-sub-category-order-behaviour/141183/2 "2020-02-10T15:16:42Z")

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> [@Tom\_Newhouse](#):
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> certain categories are likely to have hundreds of sub-categories.

We don’t recommend using that number of categories.

> [@What's the maximum number of categories we can have?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-maximum-number-of-categories-we-can-have/57022/2):
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> 500 to 1000 is safe If you need more consider tags Additionally you can have a very large number of groups

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