# "Show subcategory list" is weird

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-subcategory-list-is-weird/25789>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Fevereiro 27, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-subcategory-list-is-weird/25789 "2015-02-27T19:53:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maestra\_Powers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maestra_powers/32/37362_2.png) [@Maestra\_Powers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Maestra_Powers)\
**Post date:** [Fevereiro 27, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-subcategory-list-is-weird/25789/3 "2015-02-27T22:45:23Z")

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But you also disabled ability to view topics only from parent category, without topics from sub-categories. 😭 Wouldn’t it be better to have same logic here as on main page? I mean - press “latest” button to view latest from this category, press “new” to view new, etc And then you can place topics from only parent category where latest shows now - I think it makes more sense. I probably explained situation in a bad way - language barier, sorry. Here’s another screenshot explaining my solution on how to view topics only from root category. We probably should have just a checkbox in admin panel “show topics from subcategories in parent category” - this is always on right now, but I would like very much to turn it off.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/1/91bced48671987c68cf1958dae348b589b41b9c7.jpg)

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