Tagging System in v4 and beyond

[crazycells@community.nodebb.org]

Hi,

I am wondering if there are any planned updates for the tagging system, or if NodeBB’s current setup is considered already optimized?

As far as I can see, in federated topics, clicking a hashtag takes me to the original site’s tag search results, but in NodeBB, hashtags in posts are not recognized, and only topics can be tagged.

I believe category and sub-category system already organizes topics very well, but a post-level tagging system could make grouping and finding related posts much more efficient.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

crazycells that's a good question that probably bears further research.

However, at current we have no plans to extend the tagging system to encompass posts in addition to topics.

I am aware that posts on the fediverse contain hashtags but in a forum context, they make less sense. That is why tags have traditionally been at the topic level.

Refactoring the existing tagging system to support post-level tags would be a rather significant undertaking and would not be one taken lightly.