admin said in #2776 4w ago:
A few more visible changes for you today. You will see at the top of any given index page a list of tags. These are the "nearby" tags that have significant overlap (Jaccard similarity > ~0.05) with the tag you're looking at. For the root index, that's the biggest tags and tags that are otherwise isolated. But you can drill into any given tag and see the tags it's related to and composed of. This is actually a hierarchy (not quite a tree, a DAG) but we're not yet displaying any difference between supertags and subtags. It is computed on the fly from the overlaps, so no one has to maintain which tag is near which other tag; just put stuff in the right tags and let the system figure out how tags are related. If some tag you liked is missing from the front page, try digging around in related tags. This is going to make the tag system way more scalable to having many dozens of tags and different "spaces" where different kinds of discussions can go on.
Meanwhile the index pages themselves are now leaning a bit harder on this: discussions are going to fall off the front page faster in favor of much longer lifetime "classics". So when you're reading the index you should see a mix of fresh discussion and the best stuff from the archive. Recently it was much more biased towards recent stuff. (We were on linear time such that index value was calculated as value/age, now we're back on logarithmic time with value/log(age)). Your favorite discussion is not deleted, but might be still going in the appropriate tag.
I've got some more ideas I might do like a bit of daily noise in the archive selection so regulars don't get bored seeing the same old post at the bottom every day, but see anything from the archive with probability as a function of its value. Also there is currently no way to necrobump an old thread back onto the front page once it's off, and I'd like to experiment with that.
Meanwhile the tag system is slowly maturing. The future is going to be about automatically flagging when a post needs more tags, curating our set of tags to be the best possible set for the discussions we have, allowing everybody to add tags not just me, and possibly machine assistance tagging posts and even possibly in discovering and naming new tags.
The idea here is that the larger tags (and root) catch everything going on, but are more competitive to get visibility. If you're more interested in some specific topic, go hang out in that tag and you'll see everything going on there. So you can balance whether you want the latest and best or something more specific by drilling in and out of the smaller tags.
Meanwhile the index pages themselves are now leaning a bit harder on this: discussions are going to fall off the front page faster in favor of much longer lifetime "classics". So when you're reading the index you should see a mix of fresh discussion and the best stuff from the archive. Recently it was much more biased towards recent stuff. (We were on linear time such that index value was calculated as value/age, now we're back on logarithmic time with value/log(age)). Your favorite discussion is not deleted, but might be still going in the appropriate tag.
I've got some more ideas I might do like a bit of daily noise in the archive selection so regulars don't get bored seeing the same old post at the bottom every day, but see anything from the archive with probability as a function of its value. Also there is currently no way to necrobump an old thread back onto the front page once it's off, and I'd like to experiment with that.
Meanwhile the tag system is slowly maturing. The future is going to be about automatically flagging when a post needs more tags, curating our set of tags to be the best possible set for the discussions we have, allowing everybody to add tags not just me, and possibly machine assistance tagging posts and even possibly in discovering and naming new tags.
The idea here is that the larger tags (and root) catch everything going on, but are more competitive to get visibility. If you're more interested in some specific topic, go hang out in that tag and you'll see everything going on there. So you can balance whether you want the latest and best or something more specific by drilling in and out of the smaller tags.
A few more visible c