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Concatenated tags - how do they work?
I have a question about the technicalities of tagging, now that this ability is going to be spread around. I don't understand how concatenated tags work. I've seen occasional instances of tags that look like "abc.xyz", and I've seen technical discussions about tags like this, but I've never really been clear about what this does. What does a tag like "abc.xyz" mean? How does it work?
It was the "fiction.young adult" tag which prompted this question. :)
Okay. That sort of makes sense. Thanks.
However, I notice that topic does not show up if you look for the "young adult" tag (https://tildes.net/?tag=young_adult). That's a bit disappointing.
There are some weird gaps/inconsistencies with the hierarchical tags for sure. I honestly don't even know if it'll end up being a good idea to use them, but I think they have some interesting potential so they're worth exploring.
Offtopic: Are there any plans to add syntax highlighting to code blocks in comment/topic text?
There's an issue for it, no particular work done yet though: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues/78
How should be the syntax highlighting done? JS or server side?
I've thought about contributing to Tildes, and although I'm new to python, I've been programming for few years and I think that I could maybe try it.
I'd rather do it server-side. I think it shouldn't be too difficult, I'll post a comment in the issue with an approach that I think should work, and if you want to try implementing it, that would be great.
Thank you. I'll give it a try.
It's to show relationship.
XYZ is a child of ABC.