# Sidebar-categorieën staan in de verkeerde volgorde voor anonieme gebruikers
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [21 september 2022 om 14:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679 "2022-09-21T14:03:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Mr.X\_Mr.X](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mr.X_Mr.X)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 14:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/1 "2022-09-21T14:03:30Z")
> [@Try out the new sidebar and notification menus!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821/11):
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> We initially had it implemented this way but found it even more problematic in earlier testing. Part of the problem is that the UI for choosing things doesn’t allow you to easily reorder them. At some point, custom ordering may be on the table, but we need a better UX for that if we want to support it. For now, alphabetical felt like the better tradeoff.
Coming back to this, I noticed today that in desktop view the categories are listed in order of selection in the side bar settings. On mobile though they are in alphabetical order. Is this intended or a bug?
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 15:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/2 "2022-09-21T15:09:15Z")
That’d be a bug, but I’m not seeing it. If you find a way to reproduce it, let us know!
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### Author:  [@Mr.X\_Mr.X](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mr.X_Mr.X)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 15:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/3 "2022-09-21T15:21:12Z")
On desktop the categories on the meta sidebar are
Documentation
Announcements
Community
Surely not alphabetical whole on mobile they are in alphabetical order.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 16:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/4 "2022-09-21T16:55:46Z")
Can you share a screenshot of this incorrect ordering?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 17:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/5 "2022-09-21T17:17:00Z")
I think it’s only for anonymous visitors; I can see it too
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### Author:  [@Mr.X\_Mr.X](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mr.X_Mr.X)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 17:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/6 "2022-09-21T17:24:37Z")
Firefox 104.0.2 on Ubuntu
Later edit: Yep, @awesomerobot just said it, in anonymous.
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### Author:  [@jesus2099](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 17:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/8 "2022-09-21T17:46:50Z")
I see alphabetical order in Hamburg menu categories on Android 9 Kiwi Browser 105, logged in:
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 18:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/9 "2022-09-21T18:01:31Z")
> [@jesus2099](#):
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> logged in
yep, it’s fine when you’re logged in. just doesn’t work when you’re not (which we often refer to as “anonymous”).
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### Author:  [@jesus2099](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 18:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/10 "2022-09-21T18:03:31Z")
From the topic, I was not sure which order was correct and which was not.
I understood the opposite, apparently. 🥴
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### Author:  [@Mr.X\_Mr.X](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mr.X_Mr.X)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 18:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/11 "2022-09-21T18:37:37Z")
Can’t we have this anonymous ux as a setting? Sometimes 🪲 are fun. 😁
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### Author:  [@Chandra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chandra)
#### Post date: [21 september 2022 om 18:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/12 "2022-09-21T18:50:15Z")
I would agree. The anonymous category order is following the standard category order as I would prefer that to alphabetical.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [23 september 2022 om 03:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/13 "2022-09-23T03:42:20Z")
I have fix for now to just sort it alphabetically like how we do for a logged in user.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18339](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18339)
I’ve set this topic to auto close in a week. For discussions on how categories to be sorted do open another topic or contribute to an existing one.
As always, thank you for taking the time in providing us with feedback 😻
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [30 september 2022 om 04:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-are-out-of-order-for-anonymous-users/239679/14 "2022-09-30T04:48:31Z")
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