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mk  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 4, 2015

Thanks.

    But currently I can't put one post into two personal tag archives at once.

Although it might not be what you'd prefer, you can now add two personal tags to a post.

The archives idea is one that we are going to have to revisit. It does seem like there is a desire for it. However we have yet to come up with a functionality that isn't overly complex. If you have any ideas how you might like an archiving function to work, definitely share with us.

    Ideally: hubski has infinite recall and a google-esque search engine, but practically only the first one is very important.

forwardslash was charged this week with investigating solutions to this problem. Hubski has two problems in this regard: 1) we store data in flat files rather than in a proper (relational) database, 2) the Hubski app keeps accessible posts in memory, and does not serve up the whole of a directory in a efficient manner.

Personally, I feel that this is one of the most glaring shortcomings of Hubski, and its one that I want to fix. It is holding us back in more ways than one.





user-inactivated  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Although it might not be what you'd prefer, you can now add two personal tags to a post.

    The archives idea is one that we are going to have to revisit. It does seem like there is a desire for it. However we have yet to come up with a functionality that doesn't seem overly complex. If you have any ideas how you might like an archiving function to work, definitely share with us.

Right, now I can.

But I didn't mean what tng was talking about (necessarily -- I think it's cool). I don't need any more functionality from hubski for my archiving purposes. I just need perfect recall. But I don't see how adding more specific submenus and so on could hurt, if there's demand. I bet tng is thinking along the lines of saved posts, but saved posts I use for a completely different purpose than hubski-archive. The point isn't for me to be able to sort everything into "steve's science posts" etc as I submit it. I just want to be able to find old stuff quickly, not categorize. [Caveat: I do like the "tag stats" menus for categorization because they allow me to see who most uses a given tag, and thus which users I should follow and am not.]

    forwardslash was charged this week with investigating solutions to this problem.

Good to hear.

EDIT: insomniasexx I just read your comment on the update about wanting to know how/why anyone uses personal tags. It occurred to me that although I use them a lot to see stuff, I don't actually follow any/that many -- if you wanna skim through this conversation and add input, thanks.