Question: how will tag "stats" work? Something that makes me sad is I can't really find, say, all finance.flagamuffin posts or whatever, because my username is only affixed to personal not "community" (even though no one ever changes my tags). And I want to be able to index through my posts and list both tag1.flagamuffin and tag2.flagamuffin, since I use hubski as a big ol' archive. Sometimes when posting I have to guess which category I will in future most likely want a given article to be under.
Yeah, I sure wish I could archive posts and comments. I think it would be great if I could archive, say "Steve's science posts" and I could actively send posts that I make, others make, comments etc. to that archive. I could curate it and others could even follow it or occasionally go check it out in a more passive way. We could have a page of all the archives and eventually the "top followed" archives. I could share it On other social media sites, invite my friends to check out my "science archive on Hubski." -I've been pushing this idea for years to no avail. I even call them "archives." I like the way you think flag.
Tag stast: just https://hubski.com/tag?id=thehumancondition.flagamuffin https://hubski.com/tag?id=racism followers of each, current users, old posts etc. But currently I can't put one post into two personal tag archives at once. I never really liked community tags, to be honest. Didn't seem to address a problem that existed. -- The archive part is fine with the caveat that a) search doesn't work and b) there seems to be some sort of hard limit to how far back various pages reach, and it's not the beginning of the site, it's more recent. So I often run into blank pages when I look at https://hubski.com/domain?id=nytimes.com (except with a different domain) that I know I have submitted to hubski at least once, but can no longer find. I use hubski as an archive because I have a crazily compartmental memory and I often forget where to find things but can remember <hubski flagamuffin one keyword> for google. Ideally: hubski has infinite recall and a google-esque search engine, but practically only the first one is very important.
Thanks. Although it might not be what you'd prefer, you can now add two personal tags to a post. The archives idea is one that we are going to have to revisit. It does seem like there is a desire for it. However we have yet to come up with a functionality that isn't overly complex. If you have any ideas how you might like an archiving function to work, definitely share with us. forwardslash was charged this week with investigating solutions to this problem. Hubski has two problems in this regard: 1) we store data in flat files rather than in a proper (relational) database, 2) the Hubski app keeps accessible posts in memory, and does not serve up the whole of a directory in a efficient manner. Personally, I feel that this is one of the most glaring shortcomings of Hubski, and its one that I want to fix. It is holding us back in more ways than one.But currently I can't put one post into two personal tag archives at once.
Ideally: hubski has infinite recall and a google-esque search engine, but practically only the first one is very important.
The archives idea is one that we are going to have to revisit. It does seem like there is a desire for it. However we have yet to come up with a functionality that doesn't seem overly complex. If you have any ideas how you might like an archiving function to work, definitely share with us. Right, now I can. But I didn't mean what tng was talking about (necessarily -- I think it's cool). I don't need any more functionality from hubski for my archiving purposes. I just need perfect recall. But I don't see how adding more specific submenus and so on could hurt, if there's demand. I bet tng is thinking along the lines of saved posts, but saved posts I use for a completely different purpose than hubski-archive. The point isn't for me to be able to sort everything into "steve's science posts" etc as I submit it. I just want to be able to find old stuff quickly, not categorize. [Caveat: I do like the "tag stats" menus for categorization because they allow me to see who most uses a given tag, and thus which users I should follow and am not.] Good to hear. EDIT: insomniasexx I just read your comment on the update about wanting to know how/why anyone uses personal tags. It occurred to me that although I use them a lot to see stuff, I don't actually follow any/that many -- if you wanna skim through this conversation and add input, thanks.Although it might not be what you'd prefer, you can now add two personal tags to a post.
forwardslash was charged this week with investigating solutions to this problem.