I’m fairly sure this used to work before so may be a regression.
On moving posts to a new topic, it does not let you create a new tag - just select from existing tags.
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The discussion revolves around the inability to create new tags when splitting posts into a new topic, which users find inconsistent with the platform’s behavior in other contexts. AstonJ notes this may be a regression, while codinghorror clarifies that creating new tags was never intended as part of the split function, suggesting users create tags beforehand. aidanheerdegen argues the current UI breaks user expectations, as creating tags is possible when starting a new topic but not during splitting, leading to confusion. They highlight the inconsistency in workflow and question how tags are typically created, noting that it often involves creating a topic. The core issue is the lack of a seamless, intuitive process for tag creation during topic splitting, despite the feature being available elsewhere.
I don’t think that ever worked, so changing this to feature. Creating a new tag isn’t really the goal of splitting posts out of a topic.
Create the tag, then split.
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Just came across this and was also puzzled at what seems to me to be inconsistent UI. When creating a topic you can select tags and create them if they don’t exist. In this instance you can select tags but have no option to create them. As a user I wasted time trying to figure out if I was doing something wrong.
The UI trains the user to interact in a certain way, and this kinda breaks that contract. Seems weird not to support it.
And how do we usually create tags? By creating topics. And what is this operation? Creating a topic.
It’s not even clear to me how to make a tag without creating a topic. Now if you’d said
Split, then tag (and create)
I wouldn’t quibble, though I would disagree.