Tags. Dbf has caught tag-itis. It's a form of manic infection that leads the sufferer to weeks of tidying & generally improving thread tags. To the Nth degree. We have a tag search: Search Tags | WW2Talk With a tag cloud below. (Something I'd like to place more prominently, but am not attempting until we move to XF2.) It's a pretty good way to browse the forum, especially perhaps for new chaps looking for favourite subjects or particular regiments, corps, etc. Not just from the cloud/search, but clicking the tags above a thread can then lead to more on the same theme. Everyone can add tags when they start a thread. (Still considering giving the ability to edit/add existing tags, which might be more useful). There is a box below the text entry field. It offers auto-completion options as you type. Standardisation of tags is good. Please consider using it. D's done (& is doing) a great deal of heavy lifting, so many subjects are already in there. It'd be a good system to get working more usefully. Cheers, ~A
Hi Can I just say being new here and trying to find things out has a been a little testing for me so thanks for this... I've just used it and found it really helpful and can I just say what a great forum yous have here so keep up the good work in making it easy to navigate around I know it must be difficult and I for sure will be using the tag search.. Mags...
Tag editing capacity would be very handy - after all, we often lack the oversight to tag effectively until we've had the benefit of other people's responses. And thanks for the work you're putting in, dbf, much appreciated. Cheers, Pat
Looking into it. If possible, think it might need quite a high (100+) post bar to curtail spammers/vandalism.
Please don't bother using WW2, or other permutations, as a Tag. Every single on-topic thread would fall under this category, so it's a waste of effort. These, for example, are perfectly fine: phoney war | WW2Talk winter war | WW2Talk as are all the various Theatres/Campaigns In order to distinguish the vast majority of threads from other conflicts there are currently: postwar | WW2Talk interwar | WW2Talk prewar | WW2Talk ww1 | WW2Talk afghan wars | WW2Talk anglo-zulu war | WW2Talk boer war | WW2Talk cold war | WW2Talk crimean war | WW2Talk falklands war | WW2Talk greek civil war | WW2Talk gulf war | WW2Talk korean war | WW2Talk sinai war | WW2Talk suez crisis | WW2Talk sino-japanese war | WW2Talk spanish civil war | WW2Talk vietnam war | WW2Talk
Whilst trying to add this tag to a thread.... queen’s bays (2 dragoon guards) | WW2Talk There didn't seem to be any possible way. Even copying it exactly caused it to automatically add -2 onto the end, curiously queen's bays (2 dragoon guards) | WW2Talk E.g. 9th Lancers at El Alamein - October / November 1942 ----- x ----- x ----- Fixed, with thanks
Working for you now? 9th Lancers at El Alamein - October / November 1942 Unfortunately there appears to be a periodic glitch with some Tags esp those which include an apostrophe, eg any regimental title with king's or queen's. (I usually just keep trying until the correct tag takes; failing that, I'll resort to some admin chicanery.) I suspect this is another bug which won't be corrected until we get a software update so, if anyone else has a problem, let me know. Have also edited another Tag on that thread while I was at it to 9 queen's royal lancers | WW2Talk By way of a general request - Please don't use ordinal numbering for tagging British units, eg 1st, 2nd, 3rd ... Perfectly fine for Indian, Canadian, US, etc. Am trying to keep the Tags for British units simpler / standardised / separate.
It's great to see that some forum members are getting familiar with the use of Tags. Please don't use # at the start of your Tags, when highlighting topics of your new thread. I've recently edited several threads which used eg #India rather than just India, and so on. The use of a Hashtag is unnecessary on this platform. In fact, whenever used, it creates a separate new Tag which orphans your thread from all the other ones of similar topics. Defeats the purpose. Also a further reminder that WW2 as a Tag here is somewhat moot. Cheers.
If a member is going to tag a thread a least get the correct unit. I've justed edited a couple that were incorrect.