Rebuild Tags and Uncap

[azurelunatic]

Title
Rebuild Tags and Uncap

Short, concise description of the idea
Rebuild the tagging system so large numbers of tags no longer cause performance issues.

Full description of the idea
Tags were capped at 1,200 distinct tags per user (originally 1,000) after it was found that users with large numbers of tags were causing clustersuck and affecting

Comments

[azurelunatic]

ii) I credit brad with coining "clusterfun" in a news post.

[lassarina]

Yes! Please, please! I like being able to categorize things with obsessive precision.

[ursamajor]

This. *G* Not that I shouldn't be rebuilding my tagsonomy from the ground up anyway.

[mordyn4]

Question: Is this performance issue with large numbers of tags related to why we reportedly (I have no experience with this) have a cap on the number of posts visible per tag? Meaning, you'll only be able to skip back to a certain number when viewing posts by a single tag.

??? I don't even know if this is still (or ever was) an issue. I need a place to test it...

[azurelunatic]

The posts-visible-per-tag is a separate limit, and was originally 100 posts per tag, and is now 1000 posts per tag. (However, if you had 300 posts in the tag before the limit was raised, only the first 100 are going to be visible unless you retag the other ones.)

[mordyn4]

kk, thank you so much.

Anyway, yes! If we don't have to have the limits, if better code can make them unnecessary, I'm all for it.

That is a lot of tags, though. :P Suggestions comm only has 240, heh.

[azurelunatic]

I have just under 3,000.

[sleepfighter]

I think it would be great if the number of tags were fixed to be unlimited, if only for places like scans_daily.

[7rin]

This also.