# Is anyone else using tags on a Discourse forum in a big way?

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [November 4, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-else-using-tags-on-a-discourse-forum-in-a-big-way/132555 "2019-11-04T17:11:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astonj/32/215041_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-else-using-tags-on-a-discourse-forum-in-a-big-way/132555/3 "2019-11-04T23:51:11Z")

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> [@rishabh](#):
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> For example, we now have coloured / icon tags through the [Tag icons component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-icons-component/109757) 💫

Ah that’s great! Do you know if it is possible to use custom images instead of FA icons? That would be awesome 😃

It would be fantastic if we could have this from my original suggestions as well:

> - Ability to add info per tag, such as a short description and a link (this would show on mouse over, as well as on the tag view page)

It would make a huge difference imo.

> [@rishabh](#):
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> Are there any specific issues or pain points that we can fix here?

There are currently two (Sam’s looking into the first one):

- [Internal Server Error on using some tags (ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "index\_tags\_on\_name")](https://meta.discourse.org/t/internal-server-error-on-using-some-tags-error-duplicate-key-value-violates-unique-constraint-index-tags-on-name/131266)
- [Tag not showing in search results when exact search query](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-not-showing-in-search-results-when-exact-search-query/132550)

> [@rishabh](#):
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> This doesn’t answer your questions directly but have a look at [GameDev.tv](https://community.gamedev.tv/tags). They use a massive number of tags to manage their online courses (🤯) but it seems to be working quite well at a glance.

Nice site! I’ve actually been experimenting with a similar colour scheme as we often get requests for a dark mode. Looks like their tags are working fine - hopefully we can get ours sorted soon 😃

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