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[learnedax]

So, Livejournal now has, in their words, "full Tags support." Of course, their idea of "full" is letting you view one specific user's entries filtered by content tag, making it really an inline version of the Memory system*. It's a pretty trivial addition to the S2 infrastructure to let you filter any view by tag, and a not-too-difficult advanced configuration feature to allow specification by user, or even substring/regex matching. I've toyed with adding the functionality to my own style, which is impractical mainly because I can't add a configuration page for it. Well, they can, and did, it's just weak.

Well, at least their beginning to address the (frequently requested and easy to implement) tagging feature, maybe it will improve over time.

*That is, it let's you memo(r)ize keyword filtering on post creation, rather than making it an extra step, but is otherwise functionally the same as the Memory system, AFAIK.

Comments

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

And really, I'd like to tag other users' entries, as well as my own. Then I could keep all my active conversations in one place, and they wouldn't die out when they fell off whatever filter pages people are reading them on.

[laurion]

Tagging is all well and good in terms of adding meta-information that can be wrangled in any number of ways, but the big problem I have with it is that too many places (del.icio.us, gmail) are using tags as a substitute for genuine sorting and filing. I like the ability to have multiple 'categories', but I don't want to throw everything in one giant pool and then have to filter through it based on metadata, because then I have to go through the effort of screening material and deciding what tags I'm going to be looking for in the future. I'd rather be able to sort things into folders and subfolders (or some other hierarchy) and then add tags as well. Then, if something only goes into one part of my taxonomy, I can just put it there, a process that is generally much easier than any of the existing methods for adding tags. And if I don't care, It can go tagfree without getting in the way of any new material.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

I have yet to get the tags to work properly - I suspect I may not be using S2, and I only have so much time to wank on LJ. I'm not inclined to change my style just to get use of that feature.

That being said, I'm probably going to use them to keep track of which posts are public, friends-only, or custom. Anything else is, as you pointed out, made mostly redundant by Memories.