We only have at most 2 years of content in a community and most of those posts have no tags so I was finding that the tag cloud on most communities didn’t show many posts after clicking on a tag. Uninspiring.
The solution is to cast a wider net. So, topics and feeds now have tag clouds on them too!
Here is a Environment feed’s cloud: https://piefed.social/tags/cloud/feed/36 and here is the Photography topic: https://piefed.social/tags/cloud/topic/56
Can users, who are not the original posters, add or propose tags to posts?
Perhaps this can be a way to organize posts in a meaningful way?
Mods can add flair or nsfw but not tags. It is a bit arbitrary to let them do flair but not tags…
I like the idea of letting anyone propose tags (etc) and have the OP accept them.
Another idea was perhaps the OP can receive the request for a tag, and be given a set time to accept or decline.
Perhaps the OP could be a bot or may not be too active, and the set time gives them a chance before the community at large have their way?
I’m not sure how that may look in practice.
Perhaps it could be just a 1 to 1 exchange, like a user can just make the proposal to the OP with a quick form.
Or if it turns out the OP is a bot perhaps small poll can be set where a user proposes the tag, and an arbitrary number like 1-2 other votes are needed to accept the tag?