I brought back Airbnb categories

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I miss airbnb categories. It was fun and I loved being able to just browse thorugh cool listings. I'm not exactly sure why they removed it. Then, a couple weeks ago, they hit me with some A/B test and I had access to a "what" freeform textbox to custom filter results. Now apparently they removed that too.At this point, I wasn't happy - so I decided to look into how to bring it back. I noticed they still use some of the categories pages for SEO. For example: https://www.airbnb.com/united-states/stays/ski-in-ski-outThat gave me hope - those filters still existed somewhere. Turns out they were only removed from the UI and the search backend still supports all of them.So after a bit of googling,

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