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mandamia
Is there a limit to the number of categories you can have? I mean, is it taxing on MT to have bunches of categories? Up until now I've limited myself to 10-15 categories, but I change interests pretty quickly and it would be nice to further divvy things up.

Manda
who can't believe she just typed 'bunches' and 'divvy'
phidauex
I don't know for sure, but based on the architecture of the program, my guess is that you can have as many catagories as your database will support, which means you are really limited only by disk space, which, in the case of catagories, is probably functionally unlimited. I would challenge you to make enough catagories to consume your available disk space. If you had more than 100 or so, it might start slowing down database transactions, but those only happen when you update things, not during actual page views.

So anyway, I'm not an authoritative source, but my educated guess is that you can go nuts with the catagories, and it should be fine.

peace,
phidauex
almuhajabah
I was wondering this myself. Thanks for your answer, phidauex. smile.gif
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