Tag suggestion: `sqlite`
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Tag suggestion: `sqlite`
Free-text search for sqlite reveals nearly 1,000 entries. It tends to be cross-cutting topic, with stories ranging from web development, to systems, to mobile, etc and it might not always be in the title, so a tag would be useful here.
Just a handful of stories within the last two weeks:
There’s always been a lot of interest in sqlite and this seems to be picking up recently. Compare to topics like zig, swift, and kotlin which have a few hundred hits each, an sqlite tag seems to be warranted.
I’m slightly against. databases covers it. mysql or postgres and so on don’t appear to need one.
The main thing is I haven’t seen anyone at all get annoyed at the amount of material being posted here about sqlite. The nominal main use for tags on lobsters is for filtering out submissions you don’t want to see.
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Sure,
sqlitefalls under the umbrella ofdatabases, but I cannot see how can adding the tag interfere with anyone’s use case. As I am writing, this post has received 24 upvotes, which means having it would benefit at least 24 users.From my understanding, you only think this is unnecessary but not harmful, whereas others are finding it necessary. This is not really an argument against the proposal IMO.
The nominal main use for tags on lobsters is for filtering out submissions you don’t want to see.
Git is nominally a distributed VCS, but most people have no problem with a central repo. I really want to see the hit statistics of URLs like https://lobste.rs/t/databases. That’s the only way we can know how users are actually using the tag system.
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Right – tags have other uses than filtering submissions out, regardless of the original reason the tag feature was implemented. Not only can one browse stories with a certain tag at tag pages, one can also subscribe to a tag via RSS and search for tagged stories.
From my understanding, you only think this is unnecessary but not harmful, whereas others are finding it necessary. This is not really an argument against the proposal IMO.
In general, adding any new tag is harmful in some way, though the benefits may outweigh the harms. The harms of adding a new tag:
- It makes it harder to find other tags on https://lobste.rs/tags.
- This interferes slightly with all the use cases for tags listed above, as you must learn of the existence of a tag before you can use it.
- It makes it harder to understand what stories are acceptable on Lobsters, as submitters see the instruction “If no tags clearly apply to the story you are submitting, chances are it does not belong here.”
- It makes it harder to tag a new submission with other tags.
- The new tag will appear in the list of options, distracting some users who are submitting stories for which the tag does not apply.
- The new tag may replace the tag that was previously autocompleted after typing a partial string like “s”.
- It makes it harder to find other tags on https://lobste.rs/tags.
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