Tags are not getting rendered for Non-Admin Users

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The user attj is experiencing issues with tags on their discussion platform for research papers, where non-admin users cannot see the tags page, and search results by tags are limited to 5 entries. They have around 17,000 tags, which will increase by 1,000 each year, and are using a 2vcpu 4gb RAM DigitalOcean instance.

attj explained that they need this many tags to link multiple topics to specific papers, as each topic can span multiple papers. They considered using categories, but found tags to be a better option.

RGJ suggested checking the browser’s Network and Console tabs, as well as the /logs/ page, for any errors. attj provided screenshots of the logs.

merefield questioned the need for so many tags, suggesting that it might be a functional nightmare to manage. attj explained their use case and reiterated their search for alternative options.

attj later discovered that the issue with tags not rendering was due to none of the tags being used, and that only used tags are shown to users. However, the problem with tag searches showing only 5 results persists.

The use case is novel, as merefield pointed out, and involves linking multiple topics with unique tags.

1

Hello,

I currently have around 17000 (it is going to increase by 1000 almost every year) tags on my forum and my admin account can see all the tags if I go to example.com/tags/. However, if I do it with a regular user, nothing shows up on the tags page (picture below). Note that all tags are accessible to the users by exampl.com/tag/tag_name.

Another problem is that when I perform a search by Tags, only 5 entries show up (there are definitely more than 5 that matches my search query).

If this is due to the large number of tags: I am currently using a 2vcpu 4gb ram DigitalOcean instance. The load graphs didn’t show much load but I am willing to upgrade if there is a way to resolve this.

Picture of the empty tags page:

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2

I don’t know, but I’m really curious: what kind of forum needs that huge amount of tags?

3

I am building a discussion platform for research papers for a specific repository. Currently, the repository has around 17000 papers and around 1000 is added each year.

Here are the requirements that led to this:

  1. I would like to have more than one topic being opened for a paper. Because each topic has a different “topic” of discussion or a question around the same paper. Hence, I need a category for each paper but I have read that using tags is a better option if there are many of them.
  2. A topic can span more than one paper (e.g. if there is a question or discussion concerning two papers at the same time).

I couldn’t find any other way of accomplishing this via Discourse other than tags. I would be very happy to learn if there is a more elegant way.

4

Since you’re not sharing your URL, can you please see if there is anything odd in the Network and Console tabs of your browser, or in /logs/ ?

5

Sure, here they are (Note that the logs were not generated after I made a request to the tags from a user) I wanted to include it all to see if there can be problem related to a previous issue:

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6

Curious why you need so many? Why so granular? Isn’t this going to be a nightmare to manage purely functionally? Can’t you decrease the granularity? Surely tags are mostly high level categorisations?

7

I explained the use case above: Tags are not getting rendered for Non-Admin Users - #3 by attj

I am also actively looking for more elegant alternative options. But if there are no performance issues, the current use of tags exactly implements the functionality that I want.

8

Apologies, I get it, you want to link two or more Topics with a unique tag. That’s a very novel use case (in relation to the granularity, it’s normal to associate topics by tag of course :sweat_smile: ).

9

Actually, it is linking two topics with two tags. So let’s say I have a paper with tag=001 and another paper with tag=005.

The user picks 001 and 005 while posting a topic that includes a discussion for both. So I don’t have a separate 001-005 tag.

10

I actually figured the reason of the main problem (tags being not rendered), currently, none of the tags were in use (bulk upload). I realized that only the used tags are being shown to the users. Which is fine for my use case since I will populating each tag with a Main Topic anyways. So there was no issue regarding the rendering after all.

The problem of tag searches showing 5 results still persists though.