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I like this feature, it's very reminiscent of StackOverflow's tags. I do however think this would be better used as a menu or at the bottom of the page, out of
by orb_yt 10y ago
I like this feature, it's very reminiscent of StackOverflow's tags. I do however think this would be better used as a menu or at the bottom of the page, out of the way, as this information will not be relevant on most repository visits. It adds unneeded complexity to the top and most important part of the page where before it felt simple.
- stared 10y agoOne key feature of Stack Overflow tags (and I do have a "taxonomist" badge on a few Stack Exchange sites :)) is that is it bottom-up, but supervised: - only power-enough users can create new tags (synonyms are mapped, useless tags are pruned), - questions are mercilessly re-tagged they don't follow tagging standards, - there is requirement of at least 1 tag, and a limit of max 5 tags. Exactly because of that I was able to create a graph from tag coincidences: http://p.migdal.pl/tagoverflow/ http://p.migdal.pl/tagoverflow/. I tried to do a similar thing for many other systems (with wild tags, e.g. Twitter hashtags) and results were never satisfactory.
- michaelmior 10y agoAnother nice thing about the SO implementation is that the number of questions with a given tag is given while tagging. This avoids people creating tags which are essential synonyms. I already see this as a problem on GitHub based on the suggested tags.