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Search by tag?
Are there any plans to search/click tags? I'm used to image boards where you can click a tag and it takes you to the tag page with all items under that tag.
Are there any plans to search/click tags? I'm used to image boards where you can click a tag and it takes you to the tag page with all items under that tag.
Definitely - both the ability to narrow down by specific tag(s) as well as filter them out. Just not something that's in place yet (along with... pretty much all of the other search/filter-type functionality).
Nice! I didn't see that mentioned in the documentation I've read so far.
Yeah, a lot of the docs are pretty scattered, still lots of work to do there. This section would probably be the closest so far, but it's still not very explicit: https://docs.tildes.net/overall-goals#let-users-make-their-own-decisions-about-what-they-want-to-see
I should probably add some info about this kind of stuff into the mechanics pages as well.
I really really hate this. I mean, filtering by subgroups is one thing, but letting people customise it further doesn't really make a...community.
Eventually, we will have points where low effort content rises faster than we can tamp it down. And people want to see that. so people who don't will filter it out, and then we continue to get more low effort content, because people won't be tagging it properly because they don't see it.
The site operates on two modes at the same time - a tagging system, and a hierarchy that sort of takes cues from the tagging system. In the end the communities are going to operate a lot like reddit, but with some federation. See this for more details.
The tags are primarily useful for search, and we plan to automate importing a lot of tags from the metadata a the other end of links, which should give some basic uniformity/functionality. Those tags will autopopulate and then the user can add or remove them before hitting submit. Eventually, users will earn the trust (per community) to edit the tags in their community. People who are really bad a tagging or who try to spam and abuse it might lose access.
Communities will look like ~toplevel.sub.sub.sub.sub (~music.rock.progressive) and that's their 'official' name, but they'll also be able to have a short handle of their own such as tildes.net/~progrock and a custom style, basically most of the trappings of a subreddit. I expect the tags will start to point the way towards those communities when it's busy enough for them to spin off into their own niche.
The kicker is, the best content in those should also be bubbling up into the top level community (so a post in ~music.jazz.dark aka ~darkjazz can bubble up into ~music if it performs better than average (or mean) in its own home community. Above you in the hierarchy, you're still on-topic. Below you are things that are still on topic for you but more of their own niche. Your earned trust could flow up, or down, or both ways depending on the needs of that particular hierarchy (and they can operate under different systems if it'd be a useful thing to do). If you submit to ~music.metal.death, the site kinda assumes that you meant to include the music, metal, death tags, so communities will have their own tag signature in a way.
Eventually trusted users get to some kind of 'editor' status, and can edit links, titles, use some kind of supervote (limited daily use or similar like reddit gold, but you don't pay for it). That way the 'editors' can shine a light on the best content in a democratic fashion. These are separate from moderators, who would grow out of good editors. Community would probably be looking at a log of moderation actions and upvoting or downvoting moderator actions, which would feed back into the mod system and boost or reduce their trust levels.
There are all kinds of ways to play with this content. Lots of interesting possibilities.
I was a bit confused by this system after reading the docs but reading your explanation has made me incredibly excited for it.