# Subforum structure

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 23, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subforum-structure/242711 "2022-10-23T10:27:14Z")\
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And then there is a big risk some other things will break.

Deeper nesting category structure is a solid way to get off topics and difficult searches.

I give an example.

Topic includes

- working dogs
- that are eating raw food and dry food
- has some skin issues
- and needs some nutraceuticals

Should such topic be found in

- dogs → breeds → working dogs
- food → styles → raw or dry food
- health → skin → skin of fur → allergies or something else
- nutrition → nutraceuticals or functional ones → vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins or something else

And if we go deeper — should e.g. vitamins have 4th level where can be found vitamins A, B, E, D etc. Minerals are much wider question.

But there is a solution \0/ : tags

Categories have only one level, perhaps two in some cases. And everything else is done using tags.

I challenge all admins who are so sure multileveling is must, giving to an ordinary user task to

- create a topic in **right** category
- find something

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