I’ve gone through and tagged some of the recent topics to give people a sense of how tagging works/looks. What do you guys think? Is the functionality useful?
Yes
No
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All users are able to assign tags to their topics. Users with a trust level of 3 or higher can create new tags.
P.S. Sorry for all the “Arch edited your topic” notifications.
I voted yes, and then immediately changed my vote. These tags are really distracting. I used to read topic titles, now the dumb little words look bad under all the titles and keep grabbing my eyesight.
IF the tags were shoved off to the far right, I’d like them. IF they weren’t but they were in little boxes or something that set them apart from topic titles, I wouldn’t mind them. IF they weren’t visible at all unless you were searching for keywords or looked inside a thread, I wouldn’t mind them. But none of these are true, and they look ugly ATM.
Alternately, at the least do what SF does and change their color and make them much less prominent and visible.
Worth pointing out that the Tag system is relatively pointless in Discourse anyway. We already have related topics via common keywords inside the messages in those topics, so Tags seem really redundant.
I think the only thing I don’t like about relying on this is if I mention the word “music” in here, it will come up in a full-forum search, which when you’re trying to link a series of tutorials and resources together is not particularly helpful.