Tags for posts in addition to topics

[omega]

@crazycells I was working on this idea back in 2021, only as a concept. I've got to my notes to see, I called it:

Hyper Tags

You might prefer HyperHash-Tags or Hyper-text-Hash-tags, but with Hyper Tags I more elements could be tagged. I generated this idea a from another project for specific note taking use cases that I was working on back in 2017, that never got finished, yet more recently I've seen it implemented in some way in other apps too more recently and i never saw this topic either, first time today.

I was also thinking about social search or more correctly recall issues and titled my musings

Search Functions - Through the Dimension of time.

Here where the potential tag levels and tangible elements for HypterTags in NodeBB

T1) Categories
T2) Topics
T3) Posts
T4) Paragraphs / lines / words
T5) Images
T6) Attachments
T7) Users

Maybe categories is one level too high but for the sake of completeness of the concept, it's included.

I was also think a C1, C2 etc. levels for custom tags for users, to help their own curation would be a neat thing. Tags relaly help organise in an inter-dimensional way and I do believe engages more efficiently how we recall information, working in sympathy rather than imposing a rigid structure (it's great to have both), think about those peopel who work on memory, they associate an image, a journey and then maybe an object to a piece of information and all of this gives them super memory recall, tags can work somewhat like that.

Rigid Vs Fluid
Structure Vs Tags

Creates a searchable dynamic

[omega]

@jazmc said in Tags for posts in addition to topics:

Bumping this topic!

This would be a super useful feature for us who use NodeBB forum for storytelling purposes. In our forum, each topic is almost like a diary, and each post of those topics can be about totally different subjects. Tags to posts would make following different story lines so much easier for our readers.

We recently moved from phpbb3 to NodeBB, and post-based tags is literally the only feature I miss about our old forum. I really hope this feature will be added to NodeBB.

this is very close to my own use case and journey to the same conclusion that tags would really do something special.

How did I not see this topic!

[crazycells]

@omega said in Tags for posts in addition to topics:

yet more recently I've seen it implemented in some way in other apps too more recently

publicly available apps? I would like to check it...

[julian]

Hi @crazycells ... your post in the other topic reminded me of this

GitHub - NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-hashtags: Enable hashtags in topics and posts

Enable hashtags in topics and posts. Contribute to NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-hashtags development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub (github.com)

It is likely still compatible, @baris updated it for v3.x already. It literally does exactly what you want: allows you to use #hashtags in posts, and they get added to the /tags page.

[crazycells]

hi @julian , unfortunately, this issue from very past with this plugin continues with 3.7.1...

tag list looks empty · Issue #163 · NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-hashtags

after activating the plugin "/tags" page looks like this: somehow all tags show 0 ; additionally, when I click the tags, it cannot find the topics with the #tag I am not sure about the reason, but can it be because our forum is installed...

GitHub (github.com)

searching a tag does not show any result, and tag list is still empty... adding a tag does not fix the numbers...

[crazycells]

this is how it looks when the plugin is disabled:

and this is how it looks when the plugin is enabled:

I have just tried creating new topics with tags, however it doesn't affect anything... Can you please check the plugin one more time when you have a spare time? Thanks in advance.

[julian]

@crazycells pretty sure enabling the plugin doesn't automatically crawl all previous posts for hashtags, that'd be a very expensive process.

It likely starts to catalogue new hashtags as they are posted.

[crazycells]

@julian said in Tags for posts in addition to topics:

@crazycells pretty sure enabling the plugin doesn't automatically crawl all previous posts for hashtags, that'd be a very expensive process.

It likely starts to catalogue new hashtags as they are posted.

I understand that, but unfortunately it is still not working... I create new topics with new hashtags and old hashtags... nothing changes... all the tags have 0 topics, and when I click on the tag, it says "there are no topics with this tag." although I have created one topic...

[crazycells]

I have just seen another person having the same issue...

Tags are missing with Redis · Issue #12395 · NodeBB/NodeBB

NodeBB version v3.6.7 NodeBB git hash No response NodeJS version No response Installed NodeBB plugins No response Database type Redis Database version v6.2.6 Exact steps to cause this issue Tag a post Search that tag What you expected Fi...

GitHub (github.com)

and it looks like he is seeing numbers when he searches tags, and he is right, the numbers can be seen when the tag is searched, but when clicked, it still returns error and says "there are no topics with this tag."...

[duyanhstar]

today, i get same problem.