Two Stop Bits | New feature: tags page

6 points by jgrahamc 440 days ago | 5 comments

There's a new option in the header between comments and ask: tags. This take you to a page with the top 100 tags on the site ordered by the number of times the tag is used.

The submit page now has a better layout for the tags and if you click on a tag it adds it to the story (to save people having to type).

Also... I removed the poll option because I don't really like polls and will lead to silly things like "which CPU is better? z80 or 6502?". And I've moved the logout link to the footer of the page to tidy up the top line.

Screwtapello 440 days ago
Wow, there sure is a lot of 6502 love around here! Not that I'm complaining.
- jgrahamc 440 days ago
  That's probably because I submitted a lot of 6502 stuff early on. I imagine as the site grows that'll change.
bmonkey325 440 days ago
which CPU is better? z80 or 6502?
You're right. This is pointless. 6502 is clearly better :-)
bxparks 439 days ago
This is a cool feature, but I feel like it's open to abuse and spam. Which makes me wonder, do you have plans for handling moderation and spam prevention in the future?
When a website is small, this is not a problem. As the website becomes popular, it will attract the lowlifes who have nothing better to do with their lives other than scamming, spamming, and trolling. I would hate to see this site overrun by those people.
- jgrahamc 438 days ago
  Everything is open to abuse or spam. That's just the Internet. This is a super useful feature for users so it's definitely here to stay.
  Yes, I am aware of the scale of abuse. I fought it back when I was doing anti-spam and I see it every day at Cloudflare. The site has a bunch of moderation and anti-spam tools already built in and I plan to use them!