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Include tag cloud on profile page
Oct. 29th, 2009 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damned_colonialTitle:
Include tag cloud on profile page
Area:
Profiles, tags
Summary:
Include a tag cloud on each user/comm's profile page as an easy way to see what they frequently post about.
Description:
Today I found myself looking at someone's list of interests and accidentally almost clicked on one of them expecting to see a list of their posts about that topic. I realised that it was kind of weird not to have that "what I actually post about" data represented on the profile somehow.
Thinking about it, I realised that while most people have a tag cloud or list on their journal itself, not everyone does and not all styles support it. I guess that's the counter-argument to "but it's on their journal page anyway".
As for other ways of implementing it... it seems to me like there's some duplication between interests and tags, really. Or maybe tension between them. Interests are what you *say* you're interested in, but tags often reflect it better. I have things in my interests list that I've never posted about, and things I post about (and tag) quite often that aren't in my interests list.
I also wonder whether we could link tags and interests together somehow? For instance, when you search for people interested in "knitting" could there be some information there about not just people who *say* it in their interests, but also "these people *post* about knitting" based on their tags? Or in its simplest form, just a filtered view of recent posts about knitting.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
9 (24.3%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (10.8%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
20 (54.1%)
(I have no opinion)
1 (2.7%)
(Other: please comment)
3 (8.1%)
