As a person who likes making games, I tend to use several different terms that are similar, but slightly different, just to increase the chances I'll be spotted. This means that several tags in my top 15 are [adult gamedev, gamedev, game dev, adult games, game jam, gamejam, indie games of cohost, nsfw game, nsfw game dev, nsfw gamedev, nsfw games]. 11. 11 of my 15 top tags are just the same thing, just written a little differently. That leaves me with 4 actual tags except that's only really 3 because one of those is [The cohost global feed (horny)]. This is rediculous. Please let us pick any tag we have used at least once.
Nthing that I'd like to be able to pin any tags, with a limit on # so it doesn't cause issues if someone tries to pin every tag or something.
i agree that this restriction should be removed as well. a tag of mine fell out of my top 15 and when i went to edit my pinned tags it just disappears! i find it strange because i also use my pinned tags to showcase infrequent posts that i dont want to lose. additionally with the lack of search tools for one's profile, the pinned tags system makes it much easier to navigate and find old posts. i really hope the devs listen and remove this unnecessary restriction
100% agree this restriction should be removed. folks on here sometimes have a new creative project they want to make into a tag, or just want to start posting art stuff of theirs on a page, and find that they can't pin the tag until they post an arbitrary number of posts with that tag on them so the interface will let them add it.
I don't honestly see why this restriction exists, when you can start typing in a tag name on a post and immediately see any tag that anyone else has previously used. seems like a leftover from an earlier version of the site, somehow.
+1 to this because i just lost one of my pinned tags due to this inane restriction. i use pinned tags to direct people to my art i want people to see, not what cohost thinks i should show people.
Okay, that's the part I didn't test.... that sucks then.
Pinned tags should have no restrictions. (maybe still with a limit on how many, since a tag list of like 100 tags would be pretty overwhelming)
For now, some things:
- tags which got pinned while being in the "top 15" and then having posts removed which makes them fall out of the "top 15" stay pinned. (tested)
- As long as there are these restrictions, you can alternatively make a sticky post manually linking tags which you want to link, instead of putting them into the sidebar. (
<a href="https://cohost.org/BLOGHANDLE/tagged/TAG">tag name</a>
Quick list of other pain points caused by this restriction:
i cant use pinned tags at all bc of this restriction yeah. the tags i want to pin are ones i dont use as often
+1 to this after I just tried adding a new pinned tag, only to realize that this is how it works. it deleted two of my pinned tags which I had in place so people could see the different kinds of art that I do, but now I have no way of adding them back. This seems like an arbitrary restriction to me.
I apparently always misread the message explaining this feature and thought the "most used tags" part was just there to encourage how to use it, not an actual requirement. Having that restriction feels very strange, and I don't think it helps anything, really. The only thing I can even think of is that it might stop people from putting random tags on their page that they don't actually use, but if they really want to do that, I don't think that's a very big deal. I'd much rather have the freedom to pin whatever tags I want.
i noticed this too, i want to pin less-used tags also as bookmarks for myself so i remember them.
JackDotJS
Cohost recently added a "pinned tags" feature which allows you to give other people easy access to tags you use frequently via your profile page.
Unfortunately, this has a strange restriction, as quoted: "You can pin any of your top 15 most used tags to showcase on your page!"
This is an immensely annoying and seemingly arbitrary restriction that makes this feature utterly useless for me. I want to use this new feature to let people browse my artwork and other creations more easily, but I cannot do that because I post personal text posts much more frequently than my own artwork. I want to pin infrequent tags because of how infrequently I post them, and I honestly think many people other than myself have (or will have) a similar problem.
I firmly believe this should be updated to allow *any* tag that you've used at least once before.
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