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> Ironically Spaces behave the same way fundamentally (they filter your room list rather than switch you between namespaces), but we hope this will feel okay if
by feanaro 6y ago
> Ironically Spaces behave the same way fundamentally (they filter your room list rather than switch you between namespaces), but we hope this will feel okay if executed better.
I feel this is strictly superior in the same way tags are superior to categories. The latter imposes a strict and rigid hierarchy which quickly enters into ontological problems because you have to decide which single category a room belongs to, so your choice of categories matters too much.
On the other hand, I cannot think of a single reason why you would specifically need categories since they can be recovered by simply ensuring that each of your rooms is contained in only a single space (i.e. tagged by only a single tag). If this use case is important to a user, they can easily achieve this.
- rakoo 6y agoIndeed it is more powerful, as Gmail has shown us when it entered that tags are a superset of folders. Maybe I have a contact that should be both in a 'family' group and in a 'work' group. That said using tags is also more difficult than folders, because they're a "relatively" new concept. We tech people are completely used to it, but I'm pretty sure if I ask people around me they would not be comfortable using it. The visual cues need to be different from the standard hierarchy organization.