LJ tags

[cjsmith]

I can mark an entry with a tag, but I can't do a thing with it once it's there, huh?

Let's see. I could
- convert to S2
- go back and index everything I've written
- not mind that I can only see the last hundred of something

Alternatively, I could stick with the existing memories system.

Gee. Toughie.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I thought of that yesterday when I added someone else's post to my Memories. In addition, Memories go back indefinitely while (as far as I can tell) there's no way to see more than a hundred items with a given Tag. So yeah, I prefer Memories for what I'm trying to do with 'em.

I suspect, particularly given that 100-item limit, that Tags aren't meant as a full indexing system but instead as a way for a writer to help readers catch up on things they may have missed. "Wait, you guys are moving?" "When's that baby due again?" This seems like a nifty way to use the Tags feature, anyway. :-)

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that implementing the Tags system was fraught with difficulty. The 100-item limit doesn't make sense to me as a design feature unless something was forcing that decision.

This makes me hope that they'll eventually be able to change the design so that Tags will pull up as many messages as a user requests.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Could be. I suspect technical difficulty is why they didn't toss it in for S1 as well.

[eichin.livejournal.com]

Given that tags is mostly copying, not innovating, I'd expect it to go the way of tags elsewhere, and add things like rss-feed by-tag, tag-foreign-posting, and drop the 100-item bug... and since ACLing is one of LJ's actually distinctive features, tying them into that somehow (which *would* be innovative, something like allowing search-by-friends-tags or something.)