Tagging on articles

[samnang]

Should we need tagging feature on articles?

[jordanbyron]

Hey @samnang it's me again! You know what I'm going to say 😉 Trying to keep community lean and mean is a challenge, but I don't know if we are missing anything by not having tag support. As usual I'll keep this ticket open for discussion. I'd love to hear why you'd like to see this feature in community. But for right now, please don't work on this feature. Thanks again!

[practicingruby]

👍 @jordanbyron. I'm not entirely sure what the use case for tagging would be. For important announcements, we have the sticky posts. Samnang, any idea of how you'd go about tagging the existing content, and what benefit it'd offer?

[samnang]

Samnang, any idea of how you'd go about tagging the existing content, and what benefit it'd offer?

Articles could be varies topics, so new people come to the site, then they see few articles on top and they are interested in one of them. After that, they could see tags and click on the tag of the article because they would like to see more articles that are relevants to that tag instead of scrolling down seeing articles on index page without some times knowing what all these articles about.

[practicingruby]

@samnang What you've described is the general use case for tags. What I'm trying to see is the specific use case for them, based on the posts we've seen so far. Given the content we have, what tags would be used? Are there natural groupings for these topics?

[samnang]

Just some examples:

• Global Hack Day Sign in with Github not working? #2, Thursday 3/8 19:00-03:00 UTC [Events]
• Rocker T-Shirts [Mendicant]
• Turning a GitHub Issue into a Pull Request [Tips]
• Where I work - Series [Unicorns]
• Tempr - no fussin' temporal expressions [OSS, Gem Release]

[practicingruby]

I think that there are a few things in here worth calling attention to: Events, Gem Releases, and Announcements in particular stand out. But it seems like Events and Announcements are fairly well served by the "sticky" feature", and we can use the highlight feature on things like releases.

We also may want to be able to show/hide the internal community postings or view them separately from one another, as they're a potential source of noise.

As for the other things you mentioned like "Tips" or "Oss", those seem pretty vague. That's where I see the downside of tags. :-/