Hi all, I’m very confused. Currently trying to set up Discourse to migrate my large community from Facebook. I’ve been thinking about how I’ll structure it through categories, and it was mentioned to me that tags can help for that too. As I understand, tags in Discourse are quite “category-like” (at least for me, coming from the blogging-flickr-delicious world of “just quickly type out your tags in a text box here). But OK, so it makes sense to create my “tags” upfront. But how? As mentioned here, there’s no way to “just add a tag” on the tags page. Maybe I don’t want all my tags in groups – is that possible?
(FWIW I’m also a bit stumped in my category creation, there doesn’t seem to be a user-friendly way to organise/create/manage categories as a whole, or I haven’t found it. At the stage I’m at some kind of “community structure builder” interface would be really handy, in which I can move categories around, up and down, into each other or out… like reordering menu navigation items in WordPress, to take just one example).
Apologies if I’m not 100% on topic, my brain is drifting quite a bit these days, despite my efforts.
I moved your question to a new topic, because the answer will be useful to others and then we can keep the related UX topic scoped to the implementation details.
Tags are definitely an area that could be with some polish, so I encourage you to add your vote to the relevant feature request. The more votes, the more chance it will be prioritised.
In the meantime, adding tags up front is something that can be done, but it’s quite hidden and unintuitive.
You can go to the tag page, here that would be https://meta.discourse.org/tags
I have no doubt about that and I will, but as I have limited energy (recovering from bad accident) I’m trying to see how I can make things as simple as possible for myself
