# How to select a lot of topics fast?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [2015年二月27日 20:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790 "2015-02-27T20:10:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maestra\_Powers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maestra_powers/32/37362_2.png) [@Maestra\_Powers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Maestra_Powers)\
**Post date:** [2015年三月17日 11:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-select-a-lot-of-topics-fast/25790/9 "2015-03-17T11:15:21Z")

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It is hacky. I understand that I will have to fix this code each time you’ll change some HTML around. But I’ll have to deal with it sinse there’s few things that I don’t like about Discourse now, and there’s no other way to fix them. I will probably have to use JS to fix all of this:

> [@When in a category, default to "none" rather than "all" subcategories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-in-a-category-default-to-none-rather-than-all-subcategories/26173):
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> I’d like to find a way to default the view for all users to display “none” rather than “all” subcategories, when in a category. “all” would be an option they could select. Is there any way to achieve this? Generally, my community is finding “none” as an option to select unintuitive.

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-bbcode-button/25586](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-bbcode-button/25586)  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumbs-with-dropdowns/25205](https://meta.discourse.org/t/breadcrumbs-with-dropdowns/25205)  
And maybe this:

> [@Archive categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-categories/26319):
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> I have a lot of categories on [my forum](http://forum.red-squadron.ru/), some of them are active, some are dead. I agree with @codinghorror that there’s shouldn’t be too many categories, specially when there’s dead categories mixed with alive together - it creates a meeting on graveyard atmosphere, noone wants to go there. But I don’t want to delete old categories, it’s a history of my community. My forum is about games, so people like to go back time to time, read old posts, see screenshots with old victories and nostalgy. So…

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