On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Mark Smith wrote: >> Nested hierarchy of tags -- see http://community.livejournal.com/ >> 12in2008/ >> for an example; each of those tags in the sidebar are things like >> "author: >> blah" or "fandom: blah". >> >> People use it *a lot*. > > Well yeah, I get the concept. > > And sure, people do. But I don't know if that's the *right* behavior, > and I don't think adding it to S2 is particularly advantageous. If > you codify that exact behavior then when we actually work on tags, you > end up either being shoehorned into one particular model or you end up > having to undo a lot of people's expectations. Both bad options for > different reasons. > > People use "foo: bar" right now because that's all they can do. > Allowing them to continue doing that as-is would be fine, but > codifying it seems like the wrong approach.
I think there's significant value in using the same conventions that independently developed on LJ, especially since many people will be importing their tags. People are already bundling their tags like that, and "how can I get my tags to display nested instead of flat" is one of the most commonly asked customization questions on LJ; people specifically choose layouts that have that code available for them. If we wanna completely revise tags down the road so that they're easier to handle (tag booleans omg) I'd be all for it, but until then, I think that officially adding something that people are unofficially hacking into everything they can is a win for us... --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
