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user-inactivated  ·  3228 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Suggested tags

this is perfect. this simply and directly addresses a lot of the frustrations I have with tag use and discoverability





mk  ·  3228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks. We've been collecting tag pairs quite some time now, but not really using the data.

I think it might be nice if a right-click could open the tag page in a new tab. I will probably play around with that. There might be other places on the site where it might be useful too.

user-inactivated  ·  3228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

is your pairs ranking continually updated? it might be good to have either a rolling window or some kind of hotness score so that new tags can gain traction

mk  ·  3228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, they are. That's a good point. A rolling window is probably the easiest approach with our current implementation.

user-inactivated  ·  3228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

maybe even forego ranking altogether and just toss out the last nine or so paired tags

mk  ·  3228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Currently, 'co-tags' are just gathered in a stream. i.e. the #space co-tag stream might be:

  #mars #astronomy #mars #robots #gravity #astrobiology #iss #mars #carlsagan...
where #mars is the most recent and the most popular. If we pull from a limited set of co-tags, say the first 50, then it would be pretty easy for new tags to make their way into the mix.
blackbootz  ·  3228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sweet! Forward thinking. Love this, from someone who can't code.