I was trying to move completely away from categories on my forum BUT I discovered tags were way too restrictive with regard to their names. No spaces, 20 characters maximum, completely frustrated my desire. I read somewhere that discourse was trying to move away from categories into tags. This is an idea I support.
I also support adding a twiter like #hashtag feature within posts to increase awesomeness.
Kinda. We’re not moving away from categories, but we do recommend restricting the use of categories to situations where they are actually necessary. More information at It’s Time We Talked About Tags
Is there a way to edit the length of the tag after which it is truncated?
Long tag names appear with an ellipsis. “this-is-a-long-tag-name” shows as “this-is-a-lo…”, even on the tag’s page. How can I change this limit? Willing to change source and rebuild.