# Experimental ‘lazy\_loaded\_categories’ feature enabled on Meta
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** feedback, experimental, lazy-load-categories
**Created:** [March 19, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836 "2024-03-19T11:11:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836/34 "2024-04-28T18:06:48Z")
The category is also not always loaded for the “Your topic is similar to…” suggestions
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836/36 "2024-06-11T18:11:06Z")
Seems the category selector does have problems with lazy loaded categories when the tag selector is used as well. For example when you open [Topics tagged official](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/plugin/22/official) the appearance depends on whether you have added #Customization > Plugin and #Customization > Extras to your sidebar.
When you have added both everything works fine
When you remove #Customization > Extras from the sidebar the subcategory selector is missing
And when you also remove #Customization > Plugin from the sidebar the category dropdown does not show the selected category anymore (and the category banner doesn’t show the category)
When you click ‘Hot’ or ‘Top’ from there, Discourse disregards the category filter. For instance, instead of transitioning from ‘Latest’ at [https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/plugin/22/official/l/latest](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/plugin/22/official/l/latest) to ‘Top’ at [https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/plugin/22/official/l/top](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/plugin/22/official/l/top), you are redirected to [https://meta.discourse.org/tag/official/l/top](https://meta.discourse.org/tag/official/l/top).
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2024, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836/37 "2024-07-15T12:04:09Z")
I noticed that “Navigate to first post after topics are read” does not always work when the category is not added to the sidebar. So I think it is because of lazy loaded categories.
1. Remove #Documentation > Contributing from your sidebar
2. Read [Contributing to Discourse development](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contributing-to-discourse-development/3823/) so you should be taken to the top at your next visit. (I would pin it if it’s unpinned to better find it later)
3. Open [Contributing to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contributing-to-discourse/53797/)
4. Reload
5. Use the link to #Documentation > Contributing below the title
6. Open Contributing to Discourse Development
Then you see the last post instead of the first
It works as expected when #Documentation > Contributing is added to the categories section of the sidebar
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### Author:  [@Alteras](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alteras)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836/38 "2024-07-25T20:49:36Z")
When the `desktop category page style` is set to “Subcategories with Featured Topics” with lazy loading, subcategories aren’t separated and displayed. This makes the style effectively the same as “Categories with Featured Topics.”
I can imagine that this is the intended result, but wanted to check first. If it is, some additional description or warning might be needed.
Without Lazy Load:
With Lazy Load:
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836/39 "2024-09-30T17:48:31Z")
Lazy load categories make it impossible to configure approval settings of categories. You can save, but after a reload the checkboxes are blank again.
Lazy load categories turned off:
Lazy loaded categories turned on:
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836/40 "2024-10-01T04:49:23Z")
Can you have a look in the console, curious does the call to save the category fail?
Such an odd edge case.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 6:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836/42 "2024-10-01T06:22:18Z")
I think saving works fine. The problem is that the checkbox is empty after a refresh, so the current status is unknown. But since it’s only possible to check the checkbox, you have to enable it and save, to be able to turn it off.
When `lazy load categories` is disabled `GET /c/test-3/find_by_slug.json` is used, which returns those settings.
```plaintext
"category_setting": {
"auto_bump_cooldown_days": 1,
"num_auto_bump_daily": 0,
"require_reply_approval": true,
"require_topic_approval": true
}
```
When `lazy load categories` is enabled `GET /categories/find?slug_path=test-3&include_permissions=true` does not return these.
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