Advice on tags

[Bramblethorn]

The tag page gives one a visual list of tags in which the most "popular" tags are larger than less popular ones. I assume this chart represents tags that are most popular in terms of being chosen by authors as opposed to those that are most searched-for by readers. The latter, obviously, would be the gold mine one would want to discover, but I don't think that's what it shows. I could be wrong.

The description says "most used tags" and from the numbers attached, I think you're right in assuming that it's counting author uses rather than reader searches. (And I expect the former would be easier to implement.)

Be aware that the ten most popular tags do not appear in the cloud at all - they're displayed in a relatively inconspicuous list off to the side. For instance, here's part of the tag cloud for BDSM - note that "femdom" and "female submissive" don't appear. (It's alphabetically ordered.)

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And here's the "most used tags" - to find that list you have to scroll halfway down the page, past the list of categories and a webcam ad.

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This seems like a bad design choice to me.

 

[ElectricBlue]

This seems like a bad design choice to me.

Yes, it's a bit like hiding the most important stuff out of site. But that's software programmers for ya .