# Just how bad is it to have 750 categories

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [02.Декабрь.2017 00:42:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-how-bad-is-it-to-have-750-categories/75206 "2017-12-02T00:42:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [02.Декабрь.2017 01:08:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-how-bad-is-it-to-have-750-categories/75206/6 "2017-12-02T01:08:04Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Just don’t ever visit the homepage; come in at your preferred county

Yeah, this is how I plan to deal with this issue on a similar setup. Direct people straight to their ‘home’ category.

If I hit performance problems with 1k categories, I’ll also restrict the loading of categories in the [site model](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/models/site.rb#L28) somehow. It loads all categories by default whenever you load the site.

@pfaffman I’m very curious to hear how this turns out actually.

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