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

[dmnsqrl.livejournal.com]

make a tag of 'judaism:torah' ?

when you find you've more than 100 entries on a particular tag it's time to subdivide?

*shrug*

half-sleepy suggesty thoughts. bed realsoonnowhonest.

[cellio]

I'd been hoping to be able to see either "all judaism entries" or just "all torah entries", but the former's not going to work. So "judaism" is now relegated to being informative, not aiding lookup. That's still helpful, but not what I wanted.

In some areas (and Judaism was one of them), my plan had been to do a broad sort now and refine it later as I figure out what the subcategories should be.