<big>A few more clicks/steps have been added, which is obstructive enough.
More serious, at this moment, copy-paste is not possible for constructing tags.</big></big>
This means that we’ve lost the ability to accurately replicate place-names, persons’ names, and tag-worthy multi-word phrases from the text unless we’re the author of the diary/story/article/post doing tagging during composition.
Authors finding after publication that they’ve tagged inadequately (e.g., when rushing to meet a deadline) will have to go back into edit mode to correct missing tags if accurate replication matters (and when DOESN’T it?), Meanwhile, they’re missing comments being posted to the thread, and will have to catch up untimely later.
Colleagues and Trusted Users wanting to assist authors with valuable tags that are missing have no option at present but to type every character by hand, risking errors of spelling, capitalization, hyphenation...
For group diaries/posts in particular, where communal tagging has been the mutually supportive practice, that collaborative support is now seriously crippled.
<big><big>Technologically, eliminating copypaste in tagging is a very strange and large step backward that stands to handicap our effective ability to reach the tag-following readerships; and in being so troublesome and error-prone, it stands to make tag-pages weak for finding past diaries/stories/articles.
<big><big>Requesting that the tech team restore copypaste tag capacity.</big></big></big>
Additional problems with the new tag system:
- it’s no longer possible, apparently, to hover on a tag in order to start following it. Instead, again more steps/clicks are necessary, which will discourage site users from enlarging their activity streams … which will decrease their range and likely their amount of reading on site … which will decrease site usage… a no-win situation.
- Some tag-pages are not displaying diaries with their tags, e.g., DKmeta is missing a number of recent posts with that tag. Example: elfling's post from two days ago, A new look for stories on desktop and tablet has that tag but isn’t displayed on that page. (Since the Meta tag includes diaries/stories on pretty much anything classifiable that way across the intertoobs, some of us also use the tag Dk5how-to but a great number of posts are now missing from that tag-page as well.)
The just-previous tag system seemed very efficient and effective, very good work on the part of the tech crew of the time. Current changes to it seem entirely schlimmbesserung. Please revert, until better ways are found to reconcile tablet, other device, and desktop user interfaces.
Comments on other tech issues are welcome. Also additions and corrections to what’s covered in this post.