otw_news | Proposed list of tags:fanarchive

A few days late - sorry, new job, hectic week. I tried to keep this concise and yet cover everything I could think of that might crop up. I've set it up to follow the two- or three-tier system that

thefourthvine and I use in our sidebars, created by

murklins. If a one-tier system is more desirable I can re-think this. The main categories are archives, fanarchive, features, and planning.

In the meantime, comments? Additions? Questions? Deletions? Have at!

archives:audience & community (suggested change: archives:users and community)
archives:history
archives:legal issues
archives:meta
archives:other archives
fanarchive:admin
fanarchive:weekly summaries
features:discussion
features:suggestions
(alternatively, the prior two could be subsets of "planning")
planning:coding
planning:design
planning:funding
planning:issues
planning:moderation
planning:people & volunteering
planning:resources & maintenance
planning:tools and software
planning:universal access

Questions thus far: do we need a "content" tag? If so, where might it go (under archives, planning, etc.)? Should universal access be under "planning"? Should "archives" be plural?

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I'm fairly certain teh layout doesn't allow for a two tier system (basic account/limited custumization).
Or do you have more info on that?

well, even if you can't have 2-tier display, you can still use a 2-tier structure, but that's definitely something to consider.

(reposted in the right place)

so I did some more checking.

And it looks like a multi or bi-level tag system requires making changes in the adavnced customization area.
Which you can only access if you have a paid account.

I think this is not just a display issue? i.e. without that function, the ":" won't be counted as a seperator, so that if you click on the tag "archives", the entries that are only tagged "archives:meta" won't show up?

I just tested it in my own journal.
tagged one entry "test"
tagged another one "test:one"

when I clicked "test" only test showed up.

There is no "archives" tag under this system, regardless of display style, unless you tag, for example, an archives:meta post both "archives:meta" and "archives." You can see the difference in my tags, where, for example, there is no "rpf" tag (you can't click on it and see all rpf) but there is a "due south" tag (in addition to themed tags) that lets you see all due south recs.

A single-tier system (including some suggested revisions) might look like

admin
archive history
coding
content
design
feature discussion
feature suggestions
funding
legal issues
meta
moderation
other archives
other issues
people & volunteering
resources & maintenance
tools and software
universal access
users & community
weekly summaries

uuuhhh.. okay.
so it's basically all an illusion.

I haven't used either system before (mostly because I'm too lazy to go through all my old journal entries and tag them) - I thought it was a nift hierachical tagging sturcture.

One could still fake it though. Provided that there aren't new tags added every week or so.
I would need to manually code a list with link tags, fiddle around with the format of the list a bit to make sure it all displays as it's supposed to - and enter it into a freetext box. (each tag has it's own url after all).

Not a very pretty solution. But I think it could work.
Not really sure though how fool proof that would be. (different screen resolutions, etc)

So it can be done (http://community.livejournal.com/testlayoutdummy/). And the size of the sidebox is fixed. So I don't think it could just get mangled by different settings.

Questions is:
How practical is it? (i.e. how often will there be new tags?)
And do the mods want it? (They would have do it, or I could keep doing the changes myself. But I'm not sure they want me lurking around on that level :)

Someone just gifted us with 12 months paid time. So you can try it the usual waif you like.

shiny! \o/

Oh, huh, I love this visual design for the tags listing. It seems to me that this achieves the value of the two-tier naming scheme without actually having the two tiers, although of course it doesn't show up this way on the tags page, but most people will be seeing the tags through the front page of the comm.

I can always change it to that hacked / pseudo version.

And the way I set up the pseudo version, it does till have the archives:whatever tags. So they would show up in order on the tags page. (the way it does with the multi-tier tags)
You don't, however, get that shiny counter at the end of the tag.

The pseudo version, by the way, works with a free account.
Although this is only doable if the tags don't change all that often. (Who really wants to mess with that box every other day?)

Note: We DO have a paid account and if we run out of paid time, the actual tiered system changes made to layout WON'T go away.

On another comm I run, we bought 2 months of paid time, fixed it how we liked it, and let it expire. No problems.

You could even link to the tags page via the header of the box.

Or to a dummy tags page where things do show up in order, if you go for simple tags like "design".

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