the "show categories" option on the inventory page is a nice idea, but it makes the page about five times longer, which actually makes it harder to find things in some instances.

I think it would be more helpful if the categories were either sortable or collapsible. that way, rather the top categories like "account upgrades," which are probably items you wouldn't be clicking on that often, wouldn't be so in the way.

a few possible options I was thinking of:

1. SORTABLE: have a preference page where you can set the order of inventory stacking categories. I could also see this being kind of unwieldy, or maybe just inconvenient, like say if a user wanted to change the order pretty often. but I think it could work depending how you navigate to the page? or if it could somehow be integrated into the inventory page without taking up a ton of extra space.
2. COLLAPSIBLE: have the little collapse/expand triangles next to the category names, so the categories you don't use much would take up less space. and maybe options for "collapse all" and "expand all," e.g. if there are a lot of collapsed categories, but the user wants to see all the items in the inventory suddenly, they can just click "expand all" instead of manually opening each one.
3. HYBRID: I could also see collapsed category headers becoming drag & drop-able objects, maybe? like maybe if you could click and drag the category headers into the order you wanted. not sure how feasible this is for loading times and ease of dragging, but maybe it's a potential option.

also, just saying, but...it's kind of weird that beanbags have their own category but plushies are lumped in with toys. I guess I see the logic of having plushies be put with toys, but then why are beanbags separate...?

I've never found categories to be helpful, so it would be nice if they could be reworked somehow.

Like I turned on categories just now, and I have Strawberries and Cream Lolly listed under "Special" instead of "Food", and Shrine of Apollonia has its own category -- "Magic". I've never seen "Magic" used anywhere else on the site, and I don't know what it means. Shouldn't Shrines be categorized as weapons?