NEW: Advanced Tagging, Media Gallery, Resource Manager

[Rob]

You may have seen that big changes are coming:

VOTE: AndroidForums.com Name Change!

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Some big updates as we experiment with the path forward:

• We've installed "Tag Essentials" which we hope can be used to replace our former "Channels" functionality, allowing us to create virtual "forums" around specific phones, devices, and other topics.
• We've re-installed Media Gallery and Resource Manager. These were used sparingly in previous iterations of AF and we may be starting from scratch here. We'll see.

If you spot these new features and have suggestions/opinions, please speak up! We've got lots of testing to do and will try to make things perfect with your help.

 

[Rob]

With the tagging add-on I was able to:

• Search the forum for "Galaxy S23"
• Add the "Samsung Galaxy S23" tag to all results

You can see the new tag page here:

samsung galaxy s23

This appears on the way to replacing "Channels" but it'll take a lot of legwork to recreate the Channels as Tags in a meaningful way.

You'll also notice tags listed at the top of threads.

And guess what? CHATGPT is used to help auto-tag your threads with related keywords!

 

[treb1797]

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[Rob]

OMG the Tag Cloud is really a just a bunch of blasts from the past!

 

[ironass]

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Cheers @treb1797 & @Rob

This may be the answer to my prayers. Lets see if this dirty old dog can learn some new tricks.

 

[Rob]

And this old dog will need to learn some new tricks to get things working properly! Stay tuned and let me know how I can help

 

[ocnbrze]

OMG the Tag Cloud is really a just a bunch of blasts from the past!
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geez those are some popular topics. i had no idea the HTC Evo 4G is still popular.......LOL

 

[mikedt]

I see many "Droid" devices in the tag cloud. I think that brand is exclusive to Verizon in the US? Are they really that popular on AF?

 

[Rob]

I've just deleted 10k+ tags.

Tags used 1 or less time were deleted. New tags must have 4 or more characters. I'm in the process of building our "Tag Categories" which you can see here:

Search tags

Notice the "Smartphones" section with "Samsung Galaxy S" variants. Hopefully we'll fill this section up with ALL the smartphones we've ever talked about and can add new/rumored devices as time goes on.

 

[Rob]

Example: Samsung Galaxy S8 Tags (Admin)



I made "Galaxy S8" a synonym of "Samsung Galaxy S8" so anything tagged "Galaxy S8" automatically becomes "Samsung Galaxy S8"

Should I leave the "Galaxy S8" variants as is or also merge them into "Samsung Galaxy S8"?

It doesn't matter much for the S8 at this point... but picking a general rule of thumb for these different variants would be helpful. I'm inclined to leave them be... (and hope they're also tagged with the main device?)?