# When opening a new topic, some categories do not appear and cannot be selected. (Category selected with category-chooser was not loaded)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-opening-a-new-topic-some-categories-do-not-appear-and-cannot-be-selected-category-selected-with-category-chooser-was-not-loaded/304762>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** lazy-load-categories\
**Created:** [April 20, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-opening-a-new-topic-some-categories-do-not-appear-and-cannot-be-selected-category-selected-with-category-chooser-was-not-loaded/304762 "2024-04-20T23:08:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-opening-a-new-topic-some-categories-do-not-appear-and-cannot-be-selected-category-selected-with-category-chooser-was-not-loaded/304762/2 "2024-04-20T23:10:25Z")

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Do you happen to have lazy-loaded-categories enabled? There might still be some issues with it, it’s an experimental feature. See [Experimental ‘lazy\_loaded\_categories’ feature enabled on Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-lazy-loaded-categories-feature-enabled-on-meta/299836)

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