# Tags are not getting rendered for Non-Admin Users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 30, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487 "2022-07-30T07:25:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@attj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/attj)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/1 "2022-07-30T07:25:42Z")
Hello,
I currently have around 17000 (it is going to increase by 1000 almost every year) tags on my forum and my admin account can see all the tags if I go to [example.com/tags/](http://example.com/tags/). However, if I do it with a regular user, nothing shows up on the tags page (picture below). Note that all tags are accessible to the users by [exampl.com/tag/tag\_name](http://exampl.com/tag/tag_name).
Another problem is that when I perform a search by Tags, only 5 entries show up (there are definitely more than 5 that matches my search query).
If this is due to the large number of tags: I am currently using a 2vcpu 4gb ram DigitalOcean instance. The load graphs didn’t show much load but I am willing to upgrade if there is a way to resolve this.
Picture of the empty tags page:
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/2 "2022-07-30T07:29:53Z")
I don’t know, but I’m really curious: what kind of forum needs that huge amount of tags?
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### Author:  [@attj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/attj)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 7:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/3 "2022-07-30T07:35:47Z")
I am building a discussion platform for research papers for a specific repository. Currently, the repository has around 17000 papers and around 1000 is added each year.
Here are the requirements that led to this:
1. I would like to have more than one topic being opened for a paper. Because each topic has a different “topic” of discussion or a question around the same paper. Hence, I need a category for each paper but I have read that using tags is a better option if there are many of them.
2. A topic can span more than one paper (e.g. if there is a question or discussion concerning two papers at the same time).
I couldn’t find any other way of accomplishing this via Discourse other than tags. I would be very happy to learn if there is a more elegant way.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/4 "2022-07-30T07:45:09Z")
Since you’re not sharing your URL, can you please see if there is anything odd in the Network and Console tabs of your browser, or in `/logs/` ?
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### Author:  [@attj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/attj)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/5 "2022-07-30T07:51:11Z")
Sure, here they are (Note that the logs were not generated after I made a request to the tags from a user) I wanted to include it all to see if there can be problem related to a previous issue:
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/6 "2022-07-30T07:59:58Z")
> [@attj](#):
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> 17000
Curious why you need so many? Why so granular? Isn’t this going to be a nightmare to manage purely functionally? Can’t you decrease the granularity? Surely tags are mostly high level categorisations?
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### Author:  [@attj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/attj)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/7 "2022-07-30T08:03:20Z")
I explained the use case above: [Tags are not getting rendered for Non-Admin Users - #3 by attj](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/3)
I am also actively looking for more elegant alternative options. But if there are no performance issues, the current use of tags exactly implements the functionality that I want.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/8 "2022-07-30T08:05:19Z")
Apologies, I get it, you want to link two or more Topics with a unique tag. That’s a very novel use case (in relation to the granularity, it’s normal to associate topics by tag of course 😅 ).
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### Author:  [@attj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/attj)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/9 "2022-07-30T08:07:21Z")
Actually, it is linking two topics with two tags. So let’s say I have a paper with tag=001 and another paper with tag=005.
The user picks 001 and 005 while posting a topic that includes a discussion for both. So I don’t have a separate 001-005 tag.
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### Author:  [@attj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/attj)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/10 "2022-07-30T08:16:52Z")
I actually figured the reason of the main problem (tags being not rendered), currently, none of the tags were in use (bulk upload). I realized that only the used tags are being shown to the users. Which is fine for my use case since I will populating each tag with a Main Topic anyways. So there was no issue regarding the rendering after all.
The problem of tag searches showing 5 results still persists though.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2022, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-are-not-getting-rendered-for-non-admin-users/234487/12 "2022-08-29T08:22:39Z")
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