tags discovery

[cellio]

I've just learned that when you ask LJ to display entries with a particular tag (by clicking on the tag's link in an entry), you only get the 100 most recent entries with that tag. In some areas I'd been thinking in terms of uber-tags and sub-tags (e.g. "judaism, torah"), on the theory that this would give me a way to get the entire category or only subcategories, but that's not going to work. In practice, if you've got 1500+ entries like I do (not that I've tagged that many yet, but think in the long term), broad categories just aren't going to work.

Edit: Ran into another limitation; there seems to be an age limit or something. At the time I checked I had one category with 77 entries, but I only got 55 of them on the "view this tag" pages before it kicked over to the "one day at a time" view that you run into eventually from the "recent entries" page. That wouldn't be so bad if the "previous" links took me to the next-earlier entry with this tag, but it's just the previous entry. I was about six months back in my journal at this point. With luck, this is considered to be a bug and not a feature...

Comments

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Yah, another of my friends has pointed this out and is trying to get people to bug the LJfolks about it. I've got nearly 2300 entries that I'm thinking about trying to go back and tag, and the very first category that comes to mind -- quote of the day -- exceeds 100.

IF the main use of tags winds up being (after more features are added) putting a subset of someone else's journal on your friendslist, then the 100 entry display limit might not be a big deal for a lot of people (not that that'll help the people for whom it still is a big deal); OTOH, any use of tags for organizing one's archives is going to have a lot of trouble with that limit. I hope the 100 entry display limit is temporary.