# What's the maximum number of categories we can have?

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [2017 年2 月 7 日 00:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-maximum-number-of-categories-we-can-have/57022 "2017-02-07T00:08:48Z")\
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作者： ![jserre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jserre/32/358655_2.png) [@jserre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jserre)\
发布日期： [2024 年2 月 10 日 20:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-maximum-number-of-categories-we-can-have/57022/24 "2024-02-10T20:44:08Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> > [@Grayden\_Shand](#):
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> > I’m curious what happens when you get up into the 1000+ categories range.
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> Honestly probably nothing terrible, unless you are admin and have access to 1000+ categories. At that point we would ship you every single category json in your first page, the categories page would get slow both server side and client side.

@sam 如果我理解正确的话，假设除管理员外的所有用户都可以访问有限数量的类别（比如说每个用户少于 20 个），那么拥有大量类别（10K、20K……100K）的唯一后果将是影响管理员页面的性能（重力待定），甚至是非常具体的页面：主页和类别页面。用户性能和体验将不受影响。  
我说得对吗？

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