# New User Accounts not seeing Categories on Dashboard

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 18, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251 "2015-08-18T15:21:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Jared\_Needell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jared_needell/32/116554_2.png) [@Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jared_Needell)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251/1 "2015-08-18T15:21:25Z")

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So I have it configured for Categories to be the first thing a user sees when they log in. When a user creates an account, the categories page is blank even though they have permissions and can post to these categories. Is there a way for by default a user to see all the categories they have permissions to see/post show up on their own

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/e/4e877ccdea1224bc5b7971006a987b5f2cba16a6.png) 

As you can see in the screenshot, the categories page is blank, but if I click new topic, I can post to any of the categories.

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251/2 "2015-08-18T15:26:01Z")

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Did you alter the About Descriptions of each category?

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### Author: ![Jared\_Needell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jared_needell/32/116554_2.png) [@Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jared_Needell)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251/3 "2015-08-18T15:27:16Z")

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No, here is what I have for our “General” category

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/5/e5e6f104930dcc6d33a50446e3705b27a18e3be9.png) 

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/e/1eda6984ffe6e0454b5c57b494b9b87e1f3be8a1.png)

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### Author: ![emanger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/emanger/32/44983_2.png) [@emanger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/emanger)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251/4 "2015-08-18T15:27:45Z")

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Hey,

Go to [http://yourdomain.com/admin/upgrade](http://yourdomain.com/admin/upgrade)

A recent ember bug was the cause of this issue. I hope this helps you as it helped me!

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### Author: ![Jared\_Needell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jared_needell/32/116554_2.png) [@Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jared_Needell)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251/5 "2015-08-18T15:32:30Z")

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When I added descriptions they showed up.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/9/d99a8e0fe5a22167f289c4f0060b4dd5e325264d.png) 

Thanks!

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251/6 "2015-08-18T15:39:29Z")

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Yeah, by design, Discourse will hide categories that still have their default description from the Categories page. You can still post topics into them, they just do not show up on the Category Listing Page.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251/7 "2015-08-18T16:15:01Z")

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-accounts-not-seeing-categories-on-dashboard/32251/8 "2015-08-18T22:27:32Z")

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