Random Rants
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@mclaincausey said in Random Rants:
The WAYWT thread diverts a lot of attention to product-specific threads and embedded fit pics. I detest the notion of double- or cross-posting, so it's typically one or the other.
One forum enhancement that could help would be product tags that function similarly to user tags, with auto-completion. These would be searchable so that users could easily see all posts with a given product tag with a simple query.
Imagine being able to tag your WAYWT post with @IHSH-87, etc, and for those tags to either link to the product thread or to a search for all instances of a tag as described above.
Just randomly stumbled across this from a while ago. What a great idea @mclaincausey - I wonder if the infrastructure has developed at all since this post to potentially accommodate this idea….
6'4". Wingspan of Phelps.
WTB:
IHSH-399-ORA - Tag XXL
IHSH-260-PPL - Tag XXXL
IH-888S-SLBod - Tag 36 -
@long_john86 Cool idea, we've got the new version of NodeBB testing beginning this week so I'll add it to our feature wishlist and see what we can do
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I stated this once before and I’ll do so again. A lot of my time is spent fixing things on the forum, moving stuff around, etc…there are a lot of you whose attention to detail is not as developed as others and the thought of tags being used and implemented scares the crap out of me. I can’t fathom how many times they will be used incorrectly and pointing to the wrong products, etc. and the work involved in fixing all of the errors.
I wouldn’t reinvent the wheel and make this place any more complicated than it already is and personally, I do not want to see tags being implemented…
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I remember from a while back that the issue with tagging was one of processing power. Facebook, IG, etc all have it because they have the money and hardware to do it. These smaller systems do not. That was three or four years ago though, so things may have developed. I think it would be an excellent feature. So much knowledge and info pertaining to, for example, a specific denim, is spread across different threads. All that being said, I have no idea about how retroactive application of tagging would work.
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@long_john86 @mclaincausey there is a new plugin that we're hoping is on the money for this!
Tags currently work at an original post level, so we'll look at making that the case for individual posts too. So then in theory you can hashtag your WAYWT items to your hearts desire, and the results will be easily visible
Will update as testing gets underway!
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@AdamJ sounds intriguing!
@goosehd i can deffo see your perspective and the potential headache this could cause. I wonder if perceiving it more as informal hashtagging rather than formalised/official Garment Tags may be the way to go?
For example if searching on a specific hashtag feed on a social media platform there will always be the outlier info/ random stuff in the feed that is not relevant, but on the whole you get what you need? I totally appreciate from a mod perspective it would become a huge problem if it were strictly monitored.Lots of creative folks here I imagine would create various hashtags to pick up on certain things that go beyond specific garment tags too? #doubleduck
WAYWT is such a fantastic thread it would be great to be able to essentially ‘filter’ pictures of certain garments ‘in the wild’ that likely didn’t make it to the individual garment threads due to members not wanting to X-post
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@Mizmazzle @Matt I’m sorry that you guys feel that way and maybe it is time I step down. No one should feel as if they can’t speak openly on the forum and I apologize that I haven’t made a better go of it.
Apologies to all.
