admin said in #2406 5mo ago:
Over the past few weeks I've managed to find a few days in which to build a prototype tag system for sofiechan. In comparison to other forums, this will be our equivalent of "boards" "subreddits", etc.
Scroll down to the bottom of any index page (there is one for each tag now) to see a full list. See the top of any thread for which tags it has been added to, and for a way you can make your own tag recommendations.
The idea is that any thread can be tagged in or out of multiple tags, depending on where it is considered on topic. This means threads are "cross posted" so there will be a lot more interaction between tags than there are between boards and subreddits. As usual for sofiechan, these judgements are crowdsourced. Please help us categorize threads into the correct tags.
The UI should be intuitive, but in case it isn't, you click the little question/check/x button next to each tag to toggle through your possible judgements (unknown/ontopic/offtopic). You can add recommended tags using the +tags dropdown. Do ask questions if anything is unclear.
There's still a lot of work to do here, but I wanted to get something running in production to see how it plays. In particular, we don't yet have a way to collectively suggest and curate tags themselves. I'm just adding them manually to the database. But the plan is that there will be a way for new tags to be born, and obsolete or useless tags to die. For now, please suggest tags and changes to tags and argue about them so we can come to a good core set.
For now, the front page index is every single live thread. In future, that will be pared down to something more like the top 20 (with proper time decay and whatnot), with the overflow being indexed on the other tags. This will require some cleverness in making sure the tag index is actually covering, but that's for me to figure out. The long term idea being that the conversation is spread out among many tags, discoverable by traversing the tag landscape in various ways.
In the distant future if tags start to want to take on their own cultures and do their own expert curation I would like to have something like per-tag influence and tag leaders, but these are political questions we don't have the scale to properly discuss yet. For now, tags can at least help us define what we want to talk about, and organize our conversations.
Scroll down to the bottom of any index page (there is one for each tag now) to see a full list. See the top of any thread for which tags it has been added to, and for a way you can make your own tag recommendations.
The idea is that any thread can be tagged in or out of multiple tags, depending on where it is considered on topic. This means threads are "cross posted" so there will be a lot more interaction between tags than there are between boards and subreddits. As usual for sofiechan, these judgements are crowdsourced. Please help us categorize threads into the correct tags.
The UI should be intuitive, but in case it isn't, you click the little question/check/x button next to each tag to toggle through your possible judgements (unknown/ontopic/offtopic). You can add recommended tags using the +tags dropdown. Do ask questions if anything is unclear.
There's still a lot of work to do here, but I wanted to get something running in production to see how it plays. In particular, we don't yet have a way to collectively suggest and curate tags themselves. I'm just adding them manually to the database. But the plan is that there will be a way for new tags to be born, and obsolete or useless tags to die. For now, please suggest tags and changes to tags and argue about them so we can come to a good core set.
For now, the front page index is every single live thread. In future, that will be pared down to something more like the top 20 (with proper time decay and whatnot), with the overflow being indexed on the other tags. This will require some cleverness in making sure the tag index is actually covering, but that's for me to figure out. The long term idea being that the conversation is spread out among many tags, discoverable by traversing the tag landscape in various ways.
In the distant future if tags start to want to take on their own cultures and do their own expert curation I would like to have something like per-tag influence and tag leaders, but these are political questions we don't have the scale to properly discuss yet. For now, tags can at least help us define what we want to talk about, and organize our conversations.
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