As you can see, you're only addressing the tags as #labels following a post, whilst most folks tend to #hashtag their #articles inline as they type out their posts.
Having a facility to integrate those two methods is of great benefit and note that in my example not all #tags are duplicates between the two methods of presenting them.
@dansup@pixelfed I much prefer the new version, but as others pointed out, I think maintaining the case is important.
I would also like for the # signal to be kept to make it more explicit, which I feel is specially more relevant when the hashtag is in the middle of the text for example (which I assume would still be possible, it would be horrible to not be able to use hashtags in the middle of the description).
@dansup@pixelfed I would caution against lowercasing tags since concatenated CamelCase words are useful for legibility and accessibility.
Visually this style is more pleasant, but might cause people to new to the platform to not know how to create tags (i.e. by prefixing words/phrases with a #).
You'll also have to contend with how this content appears in feeds or via the API.
@dansup@pixelfedStrongly prefer the separated hashtags where they're parsable (I've mixed thoughts on how to handle inline #hashtags as opposed to ones put at the end).
@dansup@pixelfed love, love, love it!
I always was annoyed by the hashtag spam cloud at the bottom of (IG) posts and wonder why hashtags weren't handled separately outside the original caption - like EyeEm did it when they were cool.
@dansup@pixelfed I'm old school and don't like the overall UI push to more whitespace/vertical spacing. This is minor but still, tend to prefer tags that are different color so they stand out. But also realize that's not fully accessible. Buttons certainly make tag navigation more likely. So on fence 😂
@mspsadmin@pixelfed There will be a "distraction free" setting that hides everything but the media, allowing you to long press for options or tap to load the full post screen!
@dansup from my observation (in IG), most folks there purposely "hide" hashtags by putting in a lot of newlines (and force "show more") or add them via a comment instead of post description. Surfacing them this way seems to undo their intentions in my opinion 🤔
@cheeaun@dansup Yeah, but didn't nt they do that because all the tags are noisy, which this UI would fix? That manual way of hiding tags is more work for those posting, and annoying for those reading, because they can't know if there's a read more link because there's a new paragraph of actual text, or just tons of tags. So people have to press the read more all the time just to check, wasting everyone's time.
What if the tags are separated out, like this, but also hidden behind "Show tags"?
@dansup@pixelfed I think it’s helpful to have them shown in this new button style!
I’d also suggest increasing the line height of the description text. Currently, it’s very tight which doesn’t look great, and makes reading multiline descriptions harder.
@dansup@pixelfed Looks good! Much cleaner and more parseable. I do however think it’s important to keep the capitalisation and the tag order that the person chose? Those can convey meaning.
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