# Should the order of categories in every place being the same?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [3월 12, 2014, 11:17오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665 "2014-03-12T11:17:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [3월 13, 2014, 12:35오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665/3 "2014-03-13T00:35:43Z")

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Note that there are two orders of category, and this at least is intentional:

1. order for browsing topics

2. order for creating topic

In case #2, that should be ordered by size, aka **number of topics in the category** – you want people putting topics in the most common categories, not in random places.

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