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 ↩︎

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Maybe archived/frozen tags generally should not be transported to federating servers, except when actually needed like for showing them in a list, or when a post that is being viewed has some of them. Even then, these ones could be only stored in a cache-like fashion, possibly with an upper limit on storage.
    A count of such tags may still be useful to transport, though… to show it on the UI to the user, and possibly for the server to decide whether it wants to preload them right now.

    There could be limits though on the number of tags a post can have (10?), and the number of non-archived tags a community can have (50?), with both of these being configurable for a server by an admin, and preferably also allowing community specific overrides for these limits.