# Limit to number of collections

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/limit-to-number-of-collections/2947>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 27, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/limit-to-number-of-collections/2947 "2019-05-27T11:11:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Infominer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/infominer/32/2905_2.png) [@Infominer](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/Infominer)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/limit-to-number-of-collections/2947/1 "2019-05-27T11:11:13Z")

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I asked over in [GitHub Community Forums](https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Pages/Limit-to-number-of-collections/td-p/24386) about if anyone knows of a limit to collections.

Since it’s quite likely more of a jekyll question, I decided to bring it over here.

I’m using Minimal Mistakes (MM) to publish the contents of a discord server I run: [infominer33/SourceCrypto](https://github.com/infominer33/SourceCrypto), and have been enjoying the collections feature for that purpose for a few months, now.

I was migrating some updated content over from discord (exported to html via [Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter/](https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter/)).

Because my collections are growing, I sorted the channels differently in 11 or 12 categories, vs 9.

Thats when the navigation broke, of course I didn’t test the changes locally, first. So I tore the whole website apart, (assuming for a while that my problem was in `naviation.yml`) deleted everything but my content and configuration files and used clean fresh copies of all MM files.

I found and fixed a lot, from there. Eventually I took out my collections and their configuration in `config.yml`, and my navigation came back.

I reduced the number of collections to 9, lo and behold, everything works!!!

Of course I skipped a few steps, and I’ll tell you up front that my commit messages are not very useful, and all of this came about because I didn’t build and test the updated collections locally, before deploying.

It was a lesson, but now I’m wondering… can anyone here tell me if they know anything about a limit to the number of collections?

-[infominer.id](https://infominer.id)