# Too many subcategories...? 🤔

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-subcategories-thinking/73467
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [November 5, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-subcategories-thinking/73467 "2017-11-05T16:53:25Z")
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### Author: ![8BIT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/8bit/32/76872_2.png) [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-subcategories-thinking/73467/1 "2017-11-05T16:53:26Z")

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I’m having an interesting challenge of potentially having too many sub-categories.

 ![30 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/f/8fde0ecbae94adf27a775db9b8027b54a74b755b.png)

For context, the challenge I see with our current implementation is that in our current implementation there is a near-infinite # of sub-cats that we could add and so this current implementation is unmanageable and unscalable.

One thought is to blow away all of the sub-cats here and use tags… but that is going to be pretty disruptive and confusing (at first, at least). Some folks of our community [have suggested](https://thebitcoin.pub/t/friendly-site-improvement-suggestions/13123?u=john) some other design implementations as well but I don’t like adding tabs into the design.

Thoughts on managing this growing issue?

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-subcategories-thinking/73467/2 "2017-11-05T16:59:27Z")

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> [@8BIT](#):
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> Thoughts on managing this growing issue?

Tags. Do it and do it now. You are building an unsustainable architecture and it isn’t going to become any easier to change.

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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-subcategories-thinking/73467/3 "2017-11-05T17:17:56Z")

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> [@HAWK](#):
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> Tags. Do it and do it now.

I’d be curious what folks think about [(ab)using groups as tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-groups-as-tags/73454) for this too 😉