Support of hashtags

baazzilhassan

Is there any planning to support hashtags?

datitisev

baazzilhassan Do you mean for like posts?
If so, that already exists, (check out the link that appears when you click the date of my post; this one!), but not with hashtags

baazzilhassan

datitisev by hashtags I mean like twitter hashtags

datitisev

baazzilhassan So, would it be like I write #flarum and it will convert to a link pointing to Twitter with tweets with the hashtag #flarum?

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We'll have to wait for a mod to change it ?

luceos

baazzilhassan please explain the expected behavior of such hashtags. We can only guess what you're looking for. Perhaps something like tagging?

datitisev

luceos Wouldn't that convert Flarum in more of a "too social" forum software?
The tagging, I mean.
Although it is a good idea, if we go that path.

luceos

datitisev I'm simply trying to identify the expected behavior of a feature request. I'm not classifying it.

meetdilip

luceos Tagging is good. It helps you find like content with ease. For example if there is a tag ( not necessarily a hash tag) which says OpenVZ and you click on it, you will get a list of thread with OpenVZ as a tag. Much easier to identify related content, isn't it ?

jordanjay29

What's the difference between such a scenario, meetdilip, and the current Tags behavior we have now?

datitisev

jordanjay29 I would say like he means tags without being like such broad category or so many categories?
Like, if I talk about GitHub, I can just put #GitHub without it being in a tag, but so when someone searches they find stuff that talk about GitHub in them but isn't really the purpose of the discussion?

meetdilip

The current tags we use replace the " Category " option in conventional forums. It is more related to title than content in my opinion.

jordanjay29

Okay, so user generated versus admin generated, basically? I could get behind that.

YesMeansYes

It's something everyone knows already, which can make this more friendly. But I look at it as more of a scale thing -- as a mechanism for letting users trend topics -- separate and distinct from classifying posts.

Dominion

The idea of user-defined tags has been discussed previously ... in fact, it was brought up by Toby as a possible future feature of the Tags extension. AFAIK, the idea is still on the table. Please read the following for details:

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/143-categories-tags-proposal

Alir3z4

I think @baazzilhassan is pointing out hashtags such as converting #imonfire into #imonfire where trending could be the endpoint of user created tags or trends.

This feature could really help get socializing and trending right into the flow.
On my company community forum it has happened to me or our staff to write something like #linux in the post and then find out, "oh it doesn't work like that".

The endpoint/URL can be something like:

/hashtag/linux/
/h/linux/

Also it worth to note, using hashtags can easily lead to spamming as well.
For example where a use uses lots of unrelated or even related but overused hashtags to get the post in the eyes of search system(s) or even other user.

However, the issue of spamming can be more controlled by limited the allowed number of hashtags, for instance not more than 13 hashtags can be rendered. So, for instance if user used more hashtags than allowed numbers, then the remaining will be rendered without linking to hashtag endpoint.

Dominion

It's certainly worth thinking about doing hashtags that way, instead of building it into the Tags extension.

Henryson

Any Solution Yet

010101

All I want is to get something like this to work:
https://codepen.io/cdevroe/pen/KzWOzZ

I used this simple JavaScript on another conventional website and it worked great. But, I'm guessing due to the way Flarum loads things, it doesn't work.