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Request for Feedback: New Tag System for Lemmy (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CoderSupreme@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Fellow Lemmy users,

The Lemmy development team is considering adding a new tag system that would allow us to tag posts with keywords. This could make it easier to search for and find content on Lemmy.

Before implementing this, the team would like our feedback as users. Specifically:

  • Do you think having post tags would be helpful on Lemmy? Why or why not?

  • How should tags be displayed and integrated into Lemmy?

Please share your thoughts on whether you'd find a tag system useful, and if so, how you'd want it implemented. The dev team reads the feedback and will use it to decide how to proceed.

To give your input, you can comment or vote here or on the GitHub issue[^1]. You can vote whether or not you want the feature, and the different implementations, so we can see which is the most popular.

Thanks for helping shape Lemmy! This is our community, so please speak up.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

[^1]: GitHub — Post tags

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[-] Byter@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Not the parent poster, but I am similarly concerned about tag spam. I find big tag blocks can ruin the reading experience on platforms that display them in-line with the body text.

Another comment suggested that tags be put in a field separate from the body of the post (and they shouldn't be parsed from the body, either). I think that's the best way to facilitate Lemmy clients to (optionally) hide big tag blocks.

this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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