You can now create new tags on the /tags page

[Moin]

@copymonopoly

Regarding tag synonyms , I do have a suggestion:
I personally hope that merging synonyms doesn’t mean the old tag completely disappears. Instead, it would be great if the relationship could be preserved — so that when someone later uses an old or synonymous tag, it’s automatically replaced by the canonical one.

Can you explain the difference between your suggestion and how tag synonyms currently work?
If I use howto here on Meta, you are taken to all topics tagged with how-to. If I create a topic with howto, it’s published with how-to. The autocomplete offers both