Fellow Lemmy users,
Some days ago, I made a post asking for feedback on adding a tag system to Lemmy. Thank you to everyone who shared thoughts and suggestions!
After reading through the responses, I’ve written up a new RFC trying to incorporate the different ideas:
I’ll repeat the message from last time in case someone has additional ideas to contribute.
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 more feedback from users.
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 all feedback and will use it to decide how to proceed.
You can comment or vote here or on the GitHub issues to provide input. You can vote on whether or not you want the feature, and give opinions on the different implementations, so we can see which proposals are most popular.
Thanks for helping shape Lemmy! This is our community, so please speak up.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Eager to get everyone’s perspectives on this proposed new feature!
hashtags?
I second this
Personally I’d find it pretty useful but it does depend on the user.
A Post Flair system would be great, specially for keeping things organized in a community that also serves support issues, for example having preset tags for “Issue”, “Bug”, “Solved”, “Discussion”, “Announcement”…
I’ll say though, it is important that those can be edited/swapped my moderators.
These help keep posts organized and helps filtering for users that come later.
What we have to do now is use [TAGS/LIKE/THIS] and use external Userscripts that add the ability to filter those, which isn’t ideal.
Same here. Community tags would be pretty useful. Overall not so much (seems like hastags but even they are coming out of favor). I think that search through the whole threadivrse works fine
This is exactly what I was hoping for, you wouldn’t need a multi-reddit and it’s implemented smoothly. This post shows exactly why I was hoping for it. I usually have to go directly to Fediverse to see anything and I didn’t think there would be a follow up so fast, so I didn’t go directly to it. Meaning, that’s why I’m 4 days late to this post. If I had my own user tags, I would put this community under “favorites” and check it way more often for new posts. Even if it doesn’t get implemented, I appreciate you guys considering it.
Anyone even unprivileged users could have the ability to tag any user, post, community or instance. It would be a different set of tags visible only to themselves. The content shown when visiting those tags would be the same as the ones for everyone else.
User specific community tags. Each user has a completely different set of tags, visible only to themselves, that they can create and apply to communities. When a user visits those tags they see the posts from all the communities with that tag. The content shown when visiting those tags would be different as the ones for everyone else.
Consider replacing communities with tags - lobste.rs style. Would eliminate cross-posting and reduce duplication. Could increase participation and improve cross-instance content preservation.
