I want to bump this. We don’t have any useful tags for users, or they are category-specific tags that have no meaning out of category. There is no point to have them in global menu for us, and I wish I could disable it.
And while I’m here, same for Categories/default navigation menu categories. We already use Categories (Categories - Discourse Meta) as starting page, so menu just duplicates our first page. And I wish I could disable it too.
UPD:
Possible to hide with theme css,
/* hide tags menu */
.sidebar-section-wrapper.sidebar-section[data-section-name="tags"] {
display: none;
}
/* hide categories menu */
.sidebar-section-wrapper.sidebar-section[data-section-name="categories"] {
display: none;
}
But categories still can be useful for mobile users so you can hide them only for desktop.