# Hierarchical Categories?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hierarchical-categories/11809>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 7, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hierarchical-categories/11809 "2014-01-07T22:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hierarchical-categories/11809/16 "2018-03-12T21:10:11Z")

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Given my understanding of your proposed IA I’m not sure that nested sub-categories would actually solve your dilemma.

In short though, we have no plans to add additional levels of nested categories because of the resource overhead that would be involved. Tags are a more scalable approach.

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