# New categories: buggy for anonymous visitors \[fixed itself after 20 minutes\]

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [13 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976 "2016-03-13T21:20:23Z")
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### Author: ![dillchuk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dillchuk/32/121988_2.png) [@dillchuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dillchuk)
#### Post date: [13 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976/1 "2016-03-13T21:20:23Z")

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v1.5.0.beta12 +74 hosted on Ubuntu droplet.

See the “Calendar Formats” & “Brand New Default” category listed on my site, but clicking it yields an error: “Error while trying to load Something went wrong.”

If you log in, then it shows fine. Any idea? Security setting is “everyone can… Create / Reply / See”.

Also, these two categories **don’t** show up in the dropdown. So, they’re different somehow…

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [13 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976/2 "2016-03-13T21:27:59Z")

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Hi dillchuk welcome to the forum

Did you edit the “about this” posts for those topics?

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### Author: ![dillchuk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dillchuk/32/121988_2.png) [@dillchuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dillchuk)
#### Post date: [13 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976/3 "2016-03-13T21:45:06Z")

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And now it’s working 😊. Some caching at play perhaps?

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### Author: ![dillchuk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dillchuk/32/121988_2.png) [@dillchuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dillchuk)
#### Post date: [13 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976/4 "2016-03-13T21:56:24Z")

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When I create a new category, I get this issue again: new category shows (only) in right-side Categories link (to the right of Latest, Top).

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/e/be90794acecf9716bfe77802118f3cab9b868e2d.PNG)

Clicking ‘Brand New Again’ yields:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/a/3a6ca5a8d48c246cda29e56bb99694a26a3b454a.PNG)

Same error even if using a different browser & session. This new category is not shown in the drop-down:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/d/bdb4ed99131701b1b5d96762d4f831a670ba8f56.PNG)

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### Author: ![dillchuk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dillchuk/32/121988_2.png) [@dillchuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dillchuk)
#### Post date: [13 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976/5 "2016-03-13T22:26:15Z")

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…then shows up about 20 minutes later.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976/6 "2016-03-13T22:49:16Z")

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Can you repro this @techapj?

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [14 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 6:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976/7 "2016-03-14T06:29:25Z")

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Yes, I can repro this issue on try. Looking into it now.

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [14 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976/8 "2016-03-14T18:01:30Z")

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Fixed via:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ff12b5bf57fef4b0283cc43d5c07540ba3e25e8b](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ff12b5bf57fef4b0283cc43d5c07540ba3e25e8b)

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [14 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-categories-buggy-for-anonymous-visitors-fixed-itself-after-20-minutes/40976/9 "2016-03-14T18:01:36Z")

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