Communities have more tags / upgrade tag limit with paid account

[qem_chibati]

Title
Communities have more tags / upgrade tag limit with paid account

Short, concise description of the idea
1000 tag limit is upgraded for communities or can be raised via a paid account or an add on. Like icons.

Full description of the ideaMany communities use tags a method of keeping track of a large amount of entries from varying users. It is

Comments

[natewillsheets]

I think that LiveJournal should increase tag use for free in communities. It only makes sense that if more than one person is posting in a place (a community) than there is going to be a need for a higher amount of tags.

[rebelsheart]

I can see this being a benefit of a paid community vs the extra icons the communities can't really use or the ScrapBook space they don't get.

[dawna]

+1

[turlough]

+1

[snarkbite]

+1

[azurelunatic]

The same user had a related suggestion a few days ago, but evidently the approving maintainer found this sufficiently different.

[qem_chibati]

A post about improving tagging functionality by myself was approved a few days ago, but this is about increasing the tag limit - not the actual tag functions.

They're both related because well, both are inspired by the same issue - but approach it in different ways.

[worldserpent]

I don't know, isn't the problem not that a vast number of people have 1000 plus tags (even before the ban, it was only a tiny minority), but that when accounts with over a certain number of tags use them, the software gets overloaded and bogs down the software? On the other thread on of the LJ people said that this just was too much for the database and when they created it, they didn't anticipate that people would have that many tags and to redo it, they'd need to rewrite the tag software, which would be a major undertaking?

So, I don't think this can really solve the root of the tag issue, because a software rewrite is the only way. (If only there were a way to integrate external tagging sites such as del.icio.us into LJ. That way we could rely on another specialized site to take the load without crashing LJ.)

[azurelunatic]

Hmm, you think del.icio.us integration is worth a suggestion? :-P

[worldserpent]

Wasn't it already suggested awhile back?

If it wasn't, I'm not really the one to write such a suggestion, because I am not really sure what the possible limits of integration are. Since both LJ and del.icio.us use accounts, it would be hard to figure out the cookies and permissions and whatever involved in associating a del.icio.us account with an LJ one, especially for a community. So I'm not really sure what such integration would ideally look like...

[azurelunatic]

Association would have to involve cooperation between the two services, but OpenID sounds ideal. Maybe OpenID and trackback? Ooo, that sounds promising, but only if the tagging services work with trackback and LJ makes it go live.

Picture this: someone sees a spiffy entry, tags it with a number of external tagging service tags, and the fact of that tagging generates a pseudo-blog-entry, which attaches itself to the post with trackback, thus associating an external service tagging it with the entry through the trackback link. Ideally, the trackback summary would show the tags, or at least the first n tags. Inside the tagging service post, you've got the entry link and the tags it's tagged with. Clicking on any of those tags gets you to all the entries anywhere that have been tagged with that tag, by that user, or by the whole tagging site.

I have yet to imagine how the OpenID authentication would add unique benefits, though.

[nakeisha]

*Nods*

Good idea.