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Can magazine tags be applied to all the content posted in that magazine? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by shepherd@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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As far as I can tell, magazine tags are mainly used when searching for magazines, and maybe for determining related magazines.

But I think mag tags should be applied automatically to threads and posts inside each magazine. This would make for a decent multireddit substitute.

If I'm looking at the #tech tag feed, I think that should include a lot of content from a lot of different sources that have marked themselves as #tech, not just the individual threads that remembered to actually tag it lol.

In the future, being able to make my own customized feeds would effectively allow for a proper multi-feed experience! Like #tech+#DIY+#raspberrypi feed, or whatever!

Okay, tell me why this is technically difficult, impossible, or otherwise won't work the way that I'm hoping lol.

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[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This would also make stuff integrate better with Mastodon, which leans heavily on hashtags.

As for technical hurdles, it could work exactly like kbin already handles tagging people in threads (when enabled). It could automatically populate the tags from the magazine when a post is created, allowing the user to delete them (and maybe reminding them to add more) before posting.