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Request for Feedback: New Tag System for Lemmy (github.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

RFC document

[^1]: GitHub — Post tags

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

A flair-like implementation would be nice for certain communities. From past experience on reddit, I can see how it could be beneficial to filter a community's posts through tags, say, to check latest announcements or new support questions. I'd personally prefer community-specific tags as opposed to global post tags ~~(which is what I inferred from this post's content, I haven't read the RFC yet though)~~ edit: the RFC talks about both instance-based tags and community-based tags, which is even better

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

One of the use cases on Reddit is to tag titles that are misleading/wrong/changed, which doesn't matter as much here where titles can be edited.

I definitely agree about community specific tags. Filtering by, for example, community announcements, news, or discussion posts can be pretty helpful on bigger communities. We could self-enforce that for searchability with [terms in brackets], but a drop-down to select tags would be a lot smoother.