# Prioritize your recently used tags
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritize-your-recently-used-tags/410419
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [August 19, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritize-your-recently-used-tags/410419 "2026-08-19T20:33:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritize-your-recently-used-tags/410419/1 "2026-08-19T20:33:47Z")
When you open the tag picker without typing anything, Discourse suggests the tags that are used most across the whole site. This upcoming change suggests the tags **you** used most recently instead.
## Why
Most people reuse a small set of tags. If you file a bug report every week, `bug` and `regression` are the tags you reach for — but the picker greets you with whatever the site as a whole uses most, which usually isn’t it. So you type. Every time.
The tags you used last week are a much better guess at the tags you want now than the site-wide top five.
## How it works
- It only changes the **empty** state of the tag picker — the list you see before typing anything. As soon as you start typing, you get the usual name search, unchanged.
- “Recently used” means the tags on your **10 most recent topics** (topics you created; personal messages don’t count), most recently used first.
- Those tags move to the top of the list. The rest of the list follows in the usual order, by how much each tag is used on the site.
- Tag permissions are untouched. You still only see tags you were already allowed to apply in that category.
- Nothing extra is stored. The list is worked out from your own topics at the moment you open the picker.
- Anonymous visitors are unaffected.
It applies wherever you pick tags for a topic: the composer, and the tag editor on an existing topic.
## Trying it out
Admins can turn it on at **Admin → Upcoming changes** (`/admin/config/upcoming-changes`) — for everyone, for staff, or for specific groups.
## Feedback
If the suggestions feel off — wrong tags, too few, or you’d expect a different window than your last 10 topics — please reply here. That’s exactly what we’re trying to find out while this is experimental.
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### Author:  [@sren-1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sren-1)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritize-your-recently-used-tags/410419/2 "2026-08-20T10:53:48Z")
I see this as a self-reinforcing personalization loop. Since people tend to be lazy, the number of tags used will decrease.
This might become a problem, e.g. in support categories where tags are supposed to help filter topics that best match specific issues.
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritize-your-recently-used-tags/410419/3 "2026-08-20T13:06:34Z")
That’s a really fair point. Perhaps a switch to filter categories off this feature could be enough to have the best of both worlds?
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### Author:  [@sren-1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sren-1)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritize-your-recently-used-tags/410419/4 "2026-08-20T15:20:40Z")
I see a certain tendency to implement some kind of “magic” stuff in Discourse; compare: [Sort order of Templates in the composer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-order-of-templates-in-the-composer/391010)
Personally, I would prefer a consistent user interface.
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritize-your-recently-used-tags/410419/5 "2026-08-20T15:22:53Z")
> [@sren-1](#):
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> Personally, I would prefer a consistent user interface.
I am with you as well, but not the users that started with internet on social media. I think the middle ground (allowing both behaviors and letting users decide) is the real ground on this.
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### Author:  [@sren-1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sren-1)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritize-your-recently-used-tags/410419/6 "2026-08-20T15:28:50Z")
> [@satonotdead](#):
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> but not the users that started with …
Sure, I agree.
But neither tags nor templates are things newbies typically deal with. They’re tools for moderators and editors who work with them on a daily basis.
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritize-your-recently-used-tags/410419/7 "2026-08-20T15:31:51Z")
Fair point. Perhaps showing those elements in their usual appended _taste_ can extend their functionality/usage?
I think it is worth trying and experimenting with it.