Watch a group of tags

[medrin]

Title:
Watch a group of tags

Area:
tags

Summary:
To be able to watch a group of tags on a journal instead of only the entries under the specific tag.

Description:
There is the awesome function of being able to group tags by typing a :. For example: someone writing reviews for different shows might tag them 'review: show1' and review: show2' and so on.

My suggestion is that it should be possible to view all the entries under the group of tags named 'review' in this example in a simple way. A way of doing this is to create a page under '*/tag/review' where these entries are showed and in the list view of tags the group tag could be made into a hotlink to that page.

Cons: Could get confusing if the user already has a separate tag for only 'review'. A way to avert that could be to put some extra sign after the url, maybe '*/tag/review:', but I don't know enough to know what kind of signs you can use there without creating troubles.

Poll #967 Watch a group of tags

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Should be implemented as-is.
12 (46.2%)

Should be implemented with changes.
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (7.7%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (42.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (3.8%)

Comments

[scemo]

I really like this, but only if the URL for the tag "review" and the tags under "review" are separate, as you say in your cons list. Otherwise, I'd have to reorganize all my tags. :)

[ratcreature]

Are these really tag groups though? I thought this ":" separator was just a display hack in the styles?

[turlough]

That's what I thought too.

[foxfirefey]

It is, unfortunately. Doesn't mean it's impossible to do the above, but does make it more hacky to accomplish.

[ratcreature]

I've seen some other suggestion about boolean operators for tags, so if tags were overhauled some, maybe actual tag bundles for organization would be possible too, and then subscription to these after that. That would be nice for tag display too, to be able to group tags without relying on a colon in the first place.

I mean, I have adopted this syntax in part because there's neither operators, nor bundles and the number of entries you can display under a tag is limited, so it is useless after a while to say tag my recs just "recs" and "sga" as I would have liked and then display my sga recs with "recs+sga" and my sga reviews with "reviews+sga" but resort to "recs:sga" leading to a whole profliferation of specific tags (rec:spn, rec:dcu.... and reviews:sga, reviews:spn...) that then makes the need for bundles greater to list them properly, what with the specific tags having multiplied like tribbles due to the absence of operators.

So really the problems are interconnected.

[melannen]

I'm still hoping for a revamp of tags in general to make tag heirarchies actually work without hackyiness... but this would be nice.

[triadruid]

Boolean operations on tags is really what I want.

[denise]

This will be mostly possible with the new reading filters: you'll be able to create a reading filter that only includes certain tags.