Re: [Fofredux-devel] beta v0.2 ready for testing

[Kevin <ke...@dr...>]

Benjamin Stewart wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:32:24PM -0500, Andrew Turner wrote:
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>>Thanks for the bug report Kevin - I will fix those this weekend and do
>>a checkin.
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>>Any more thoughts on categories/tagging?
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>Yes:  the short version is, I think feed categories should be handled by
>tagging, and an ability to tag individual posts should exist via the
>same mechanism.  Regardless of whether or not we're going to walk down
>the reblog path, I think the ability for a user to tag specific entries
>for future reference will add additional functionality above and beyond
>the ability to "save / mark / star / whatever you want to call it"
>entries.
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>Re-using the same mechanism for doing feed categories seems only
>logical.
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>--Benjy
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It sounds like category vs. tag are very similar in functionality.   To 
me, it sounds like category is a specialized type (subtype) of a tag.

I guess the question is:  What do categories give use that tagging does 
not.  Is there any feature/behavior a category must do that can not be 
naturally supported by tags.

I can think of one case where using tags on items as "categories" could 
break or at least require extra work to get the functionality to work as 
expected.  What happens when a user decides to change the category(s) 
for a feed.  If we are tagging new items to a category when they are 
inserted, what about all the old items already in the db.  All those 
items would have to be updated to reflect the change in category for the 
feed they are in.

--Kevin