# Issue adding tags
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355 "2018-02-23T20:47:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/1 "2018-02-23T20:47:21Z")
has happened a few times…
trying to add a 3-character tag and i can’t seem to do it. the “create new tag” doesn’t always show up.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/2 "2018-02-23T21:33:42Z")
That’s odd. Any consistency to when you can’t create a 3 letter tag? It works here on Meta when I try…
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/3 "2018-02-23T21:35:22Z")
i’ve had this issue a few times. ill give it another go… and see if it happens again in a way that reproducible.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/4 "2018-02-23T21:36:37Z")
A _thought_, which I don’t think I can test here on Meta, we don’t have enough similarly spelled tags - does it occur every time there are 5 existing tags that match the 3 letters?
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/5 "2018-02-23T21:44:25Z")
I’m pushing updates to this component next week, might improve this.
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/6 "2018-02-27T04:07:20Z")
tried a few more times… had another issue.
couldn’t seem to add a new tag… women… the problem is that this tag already exists:
so, i published the post and then went back to edit the tag and add it post-publish… but then it showed me this strange view:
now it says i could create a new one even though it found it.
strange.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/7 "2018-02-27T06:13:27Z")
Yes I know about the last one, it’s kind of an edge case. And a little bit annoying cause the list of existing tags is async so I’ m not sure what kind of UI I should do here. As I don’t want to remove the field as you are typing if the list shows an existing tag.
For the first one I will check.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 7:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/8 "2018-02-27T07:48:39Z")
Will be fixed by:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/410b90dde0d2a6382cc1425dd644147d2b55e420](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/410b90dde0d2a6382cc1425dd644147d2b55e420)
Thanks
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/9 "2018-02-27T17:13:59Z")
cool. had it happen again:
couldn’t create “gamengine”… but, i deleted it and typed in “gameengine” (two e’s) and then i could create.
and again.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/10 "2018-02-27T17:34:47Z")
I just pushed two fixes:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9b680fc45c6540b65dcab6b4801b8e2322309c2a](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9b680fc45c6540b65dcab6b4801b8e2322309c2a)
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ba2f01c0bd7253dd8f1970c01e0876634803fe61](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ba2f01c0bd7253dd8f1970c01e0876634803fe61)
This should for sure fix this one:
Concerning the other issue, I would appreciate a more detailed reproduction.
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/11 "2018-02-27T18:30:10Z")
kk. will continue to test post-update.
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/12 "2018-03-02T16:15:13Z")
tried multiple times. showed “create” but disappeared when i got beyond “community” in the tag “ethereumcommunityfund”.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/13 "2018-03-02T16:40:56Z")
What’s your `max tag length` site setting? I bet “ethereumcommunityfund” is too long
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/14 "2018-03-02T23:54:21Z")
 
a few more issues.
`max tag length` is 20.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/15 "2018-03-03T10:44:14Z")
There was still a case where it could happen indeed:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5e323139aeefa445aa5b46ac55d57ffb883a95b3](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5e323139aeefa445aa5b46ac55d57ffb883a95b3)
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-adding-tags/81355/16 "2018-03-05T17:00:47Z")
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