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Vibha Ravi
from Mumbai |

Hi Renie,

The lifestyle category currently clubs photography, travel, fashion etc. which I feel are big enough to consider as independent categories.

You would be better placed to decide if IB itself has a big enough population of these blogs to justify doing so, but it would help us showcase our blogs better on IB. So, just a request to take a look and see if it makes sense.

Thanks.

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Vibha Ravi
from Mumbai |

Yup, that's right Ajesh. Am talking about categories not sub-categories. I have a feeling there would be a big enough population of blogs under each to justify this. 

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

I don't think that is ever going to happen because

  • There is no space available for new categories. Tongue out http://prntscr.com/6ch04e
  • There are many other topics which deserve to have an independent category. (For now, I found only one - https://www.indiblogger.in/tagsearch.php?tag=Poetry Tongue out )
  • At least there are sub categories for travel and photography. There are many topics for which we do not even have sub categories. 
Narasimha Sharma Veturi
from Hyderabad |

Anything people ask, you are ready to say not possible, not gonna happen and throw a few screenshots at them.

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

ok, it is possible, it will happen. [no screenshot]

The Sorcerer
from Mumbai |

Please do separate SEO type content to a different category too, away from tech. 

SloWord the Author Playwright Blogger
from the Tundra |

I do not understand why it is not possible? Technically? Sorry, ain't buying that!

If you look at Indistatus: Travel accounts for the largest chunk of categories, followed by India, fashion and photgraphy.......

Vibha Ravi
from Mumbai |

Hi Ranjith, Indistatus does show the foll. nos. for trending categories - Travel 32, Photography -15, Fashion - 13 and Poetry - 10.  So, these three categories I'm talking about add up to 60. There are other sub-categories also clubbed under this one 'lifestyle' category so, I'm sure there is room for some distinction here. 

Now, I'm not tech savvy so, cant talk that language. But I would like to believe that where there is a will, there is a way? 

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

I'm not sure how those trending categories are found. 

Check the titles of the latest 100 posts on IndiVine. There aren't many travel posts. Or am I missing something? #o

Vibha Ravi
from Mumbai |

In my opinion, a serious travel post requires much more effort than just putting up one picture. That might be the reason productivity might not be that high - but trending should mean that they are read and re-read much more over a longer period of time (not just one day so as to appear in today's popular posts). 

I think IB would be best placed to check how many travel, photography and fashion blogs are on the platform. I can see a significant number in the blogosphere. Not to take away from other categories, but one category for these three and many more does not seem sufficient to me.

On a side note, has IB now changed the way top posts are shown (over a longer period now vs one day earlier)?