# Infinite scrolling for the category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-scrolling-for-the-category/218355
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 16, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-scrolling-for-the-category/218355 "2022-02-16T13:01:30Z")
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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 16, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-scrolling-for-the-category/218355/5 "2022-02-16T14:36:46Z")

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You have 1437 categories. That is not recommended.

> [@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
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> If you need more consider tags
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> Additionally you can have a very large number of groups

> [@What's the maximum number of categories we can have?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-maximum-number-of-categories-we-can-have/57022/12):
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> Honestly probably nothing terrible, unless you are admin and have access to 1000+ categories. At that point we would ship you every single category json in your first page, the categories page would get slow both server side and client side.

Your site.json is 4.5MB, while Meta is 56KB in comparison. Maybe try using tags.

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