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Lists support a different style of browsing. Categories are chopped up into little subcategories, requiring much clicking to navigate an entire subject to move up and down all the branches of its disconnected tree -- it may be hard to keep track of what you've looked at and what you haven't. Lists,
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The category system is not as intuitive to new editors. Clicking "edit" to edit what you see on a page is pretty straight forward. But if you try that with a category page, the editor doesn't see any of the topics in the category in the edit window. The editor has just discovered the
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