# Topic Collections
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-collections/52508
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 4, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-collections/52508 "2016-11-04T16:52:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-collections/52508/1 "2016-11-04T16:52:37Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Being a Heretic aka Going Back to Pagination?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/being-a-heretic-aka-going-back-to-pagination/52070/81):
@riking had some interesting ideas on how to manage Topic Collections.
> [@riking](#):
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> It would render as something like this:
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> Collection: Bob’s Mods (7) [•] modding [5 feature avatars] {sum of topic views} {number of topics replaces reply count} {bumped\_at}
> latest: Changelog (1)
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> Clicking on “latest: Changelog (blue 1)” would take you right into the normal Discourse thread view we all know.
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> But clicking on Collection takes you to a topic list. It’s not a category - the collection belongs to the “modding” category - but rather a collection of topics in a UI that’s a blend between the category list and topic UI - think the private message views.
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> The entire collection would be bumped on the Latest list when any of its topics get bumped.
I wanted to make sure I’d started a feature topic to track this idea.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-collections/52508/2 "2016-11-04T19:48:30Z")
This needs UI mock ups because I am not sure I understand what @riking is proposing, exactly.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-collections/52508/3 "2016-11-04T23:00:18Z")
Here’s the /latest list UI I was talking about:
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-collections/52508/4 "2016-11-04T23:17:29Z")
This idea is growing on me and I think I like it. Would be nice if the Collection could be expanded in the topic list (for small collections anyway. and actually I don’t think this would work at all for large numbers of topics, both from a UI point of view and a “hidden subcategories” point of view. “Collections can hold no more than 20 topics. Click here to convert this Collection to a Category.”
Further ideas/uses:
Reply as: New Topic or New Collected Topic
Wiki articles and their Talk page(s) as a collection
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-collections/52508/5 "2016-11-04T23:33:52Z")
> [@Tom\_Newsom](#):
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> Further ideas/uses:
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> Reply as: New Topic or New Collected Topic
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> Wiki articles and their Talk page(s) as a collection
I was thinking the “new collection” would be a dropdown from a topic list into a modal.
Select a category and at least one existing topic in that category, pick a title.
And yeah, expanding in the topic list would probably be better than an intermediate page…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-collections/52508/6 "2016-11-07T02:27:45Z")
I am struggling here trying to understand why a new concept is needed here when we already have tags?
Aren’t you simply proposing a better mechanism for tagging and organising tags?