This is a good point. Perhaps we've gotten away without folks focusing on tags so much because we never had so many active users that were accustomed to them. Fucking tags. :) I need to step back and think on them. Thanks, Saydrah.Just a rough off the cuff thought, but if you don't want subreddits, you can't just build pages that function exactly the same way and make them harder to get to.
What if people still tagged posts but they weren't visible at all except in someones profile to show what tags they most often use?
What use would you get out of tags that way, save for statistical information? I was under the impression that tags are another way to get to content, akin to subscribing to people.
Hey thomasbaart, it was a suggestion made back when people could follow tags. That's no longer the case. You are correct that tags are used for content discovery. Welcome to Hubski, if you have any questions, feel free to pm me. See you around.
Please, please don't get rid of tags. It's one of the things that really made me excited about hubski. I think that as long as you keep putting emphasis on following users (like making the user page very informative and attractive, perhaps including statistics about the user's past posts and shares), tags can be a nice complement to that system. Giving a user the ability to find posts from a subject they are interested in, even if the post is from a brand new user with 0 followers, that functionality is just too damn useful to do away with completely.
I agree. I am not going to get rid of tags. However, I do think that they need to be reworked with an emphasis on content discovery rather than on content curation. I'm right in the middle of a rework that I am starting to dig. I think if used the right way, we can remove some of the negatives associated with tags, and accentuate some of the positives.Giving a user the ability to find posts from a subject they are interested in, even if the post is from a brand new user with 0 followers, that functionality is just too damn useful to do away with completely.