This is disconcerting: the UI is reactive, in the sense that it reacts to my actions, and here something happened in a tab where I did nothing. type alw, switch to a different window, and the display changes to alw⊗. When I unfocus the browser window or switch tabs, the tag is considered entered. The narrow columns for short text are nice, but when a tag lacks an excerpt, that means a lot of ugly blank space. I'm torn on the value of presenting a rectangular arrangement rather than a list of rows. if I enter edit, I want to see “21 total” or “15 more” or some such indication.
I would like some feedback on the number of matching tags when I enter a partial tag name. (Wiki excerpts already shown when you hover your mouse on a tag button now have the same problem.) Sure, small fonts allow cramming a lot of information in a short space, but that's no good if you can't read this information without a magnifying glass. Showing the tag wiki excerpt is a major improvement. I was also considering what might happen if you gave people positive feedback on tags that were well-related to the other tags they were using, but I feel like there might be too many issues with trying to make that work effectively. I do like the increased font size though): I still feel like this isn't perfect, and I'm not sure how this would look with a lengthier description text, but it feels more natural to me.Īnother approach would be to put the description next to the tag to conserve vertical space (~350px with six results versus ~500px), although I couldn't get that to turn out in a way I really liked (synonyms look especially off to me. Taking that into account, and incorporating random's suggestion, I messed around with it a bit in Inspector Tools and came up with the following. I am, however, kind of partial to the vertical list in these kinds of cases. Having additional tag information readily available when tagging questions seems like it would be really beneficial, and I like the general approach you've taken. Will it help improve tagging of questions, and what can be done make it help even more? Please have a look, play with it, and give feedback. It's now activated currently here on Meta only. It's not quite done, but we're getting close, so we've put up a play ground page here on Meta: …and generally quite a few of the things you can find in the tags tag here on Meta.
Or, as Jeff so eloquently said in one of our Monday team status reports: We're giving you a simple autocomplete box, but that's it. *except when you hover over the preview tag that magically appears below the actual input box. We have awesome tag wikis that are being created and curated by the community, to help people understand what a particular tag is about, and what they need to know when using the tag for a question – but when that information would be by far most important (namely, at the moment a question is being tagged), that information is nowhere to be seen*. We're working on improving the tag editor (mainly for the "ask question" page).