Complete lists of MeFi and AskMe tags - gone? December 30, 2005 6:17 PM Subscribe
Complete lists of MeFi and AskMe tags - gone?
Below are the 150 most often used tags on MetaFilter. (Ask MetaFilter also has a popular tags page)
Connection Failure
posted by caddis at 6:58 PM on December 30, 2005
Connection Failure
posted by caddis at 6:58 PM on December 30, 2005
Okay, now de-hosed (the "Connection Failure" on the MeFi tags page is gone, and the popular tags are back).
posted by hangashore at 7:04 PM on December 30, 2005
posted by hangashore at 7:04 PM on December 30, 2005
popular tags only, as the "all tags ever" page was close to useless (not to mention it was over 2Mb of HTML just to convey the uselessness).
The tags features were kind of thrown together when they were new and there wasn't much content to check them against, but now it's kind of outgrown the large set so I limited it to just the popular ones. You can try any tag by just adding to the /tags/any-word-here URL, but I could add a tag search if people want to search for exact words that might show up in tag names.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:52 PM on December 30, 2005
The tags features were kind of thrown together when they were new and there wasn't much content to check them against, but now it's kind of outgrown the large set so I limited it to just the popular ones. You can try any tag by just adding to the /tags/any-word-here URL, but I could add a tag search if people want to search for exact words that might show up in tag names.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:52 PM on December 30, 2005
(not to mention it was over 2Mb of HTML just to convey the uselessness)
Was going to say that it was occasionally a fun read, but at that size I don't blame you at all for retiring it.
posted by hangashore at 8:04 PM on December 30, 2005
Was going to say that it was occasionally a fun read, but at that size I don't blame you at all for retiring it.
posted by hangashore at 8:04 PM on December 30, 2005
but I could add a tag search if people want to search for exact words that might show up in tag names.
I think that would be helpful. I find searching for tags an efficient way to check for previous posts on a subject, and sometimes that subject may not have popular tags.
posted by soiled cowboy at 8:27 PM on December 30, 2005
I think that would be helpful. I find searching for tags an efficient way to check for previous posts on a subject, and sometimes that subject may not have popular tags.
posted by soiled cowboy at 8:27 PM on December 30, 2005
I think that would be helpful too. Of course, I think it would be more helpful if more people used descriptive tags in their posts instead of trying to come up with cutesy, clever shit, which is probably part of what made the full list so useless.
posted by Gator at 7:22 AM on December 31, 2005
posted by Gator at 7:22 AM on December 31, 2005
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On preview, looks like the MeFi tags page is hosed.
Firefox 1.5 on Win2K (apologies if it's just PEBKACery on my part).
posted by hangashore at 6:19 PM on December 30, 2005