Is there any appetite for revisiting this in some form?
We’re still in the “ruminating” phase on how we may lean on tags much more heavily than categories going forward (see: Does your community rely heavily on tagging? What tips do you have?).
But this question of whether there’s a way to have descriptions for tags has come up.
As for UX, I see two possibilities:
- The pinned topic idea
(might make sense anyway. it’s more generic and we might pin topics other than the “about” one for a given tag if this feature existed) - A first class description
(I think this would be better way to add descriptions for tags in the long run)
As for UI, I’m thinking it could be something like a div of text above the topic list with an edit pencil to update it:
