We need to have more organized sorting for Portfolios and Recruitments:
Programming
Art
etc
This will improve a lot on finding posts you are actually looking for as most of the time Titles aren’t very descriptive or the feed is flooded with unwanted posts.
Why? You can already do this with tags.
It’s important to include actual use-cases when suggesting new categories or features, otherwise the suggestions are far less likely to be implemented.
Doesn’t seem like people actually use those or even know that it exists and having Sub Categories makes it easier to find and create posts.
This is more of a QOL improvement rather than adding new features as it removes a lot of unnecessary steps required for users to make and improves UX significantly.
It hasn’t really been promoted anywhere that tags could serve this purpose. I personally would think that tags are just used to improve search results rather than categorizing a post. That’s interesting to know.
I have no issue with the current setup of categories.
Tags are extensively used in the category, search optimisation is actually pretty good. Using these search options I can see every topic made in the last week tagged with “modeling” and “open” (above 50). Alternatively just “modeling” gives similar results.
This is about the same effort as navigating to a theoretical sub-sub-category, but you have way more options to narrow down your results.
Discourse only supports categories two levels deep (Collaboration → Recruitment, Collaboration → Portfolios, can’t go a level deeper). This was the intended use of tags (see this discourse meta post).
If you all believe this should be changed, you’ll have to request it on meta. If you go this route, make sure you include strong use-cases.
Their purpose is to improve search optimisation which is pretty useful in this case to find the topics you want (modeling job posts, programmer portfolios, etc). We could probably promote tags more, but outside of #collaboration they’re prone to abuse (making them less useful) so we’d have to solve that problem first.
I see what you mean and understand what I need to do.
Although from UX perspective making things simple is always most of the time better as less is more; in this case adding tags requires user’s acknowledgement and the will to actually use it for both Searching and Creating posts.
Having sub-categories is easier and achieves the same thing only with less
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Instead of having Portfolios and Recruitments under Collaboration we can move it up?
As it’s useless to have Collaboration since Portfolio and Recruitment is self explanatory and shouldn’t be shown together in the feed anyways; ei
People looking for Portfolios don’t need to see Recruitments as they aren’t looking for a job and vice-versa
Just use tags. If you’re for hire, then just search whatever and add tags, and specific categories.
Instead of having the title “[HIRING] Looking for a clothing designer!”, you could just have “Looking for a clothing designer” with the necessary tags.
Actually I see most titles like
Name's GFX Portfolio [OPEN] and stuff like that. Their role in development is in the title. Bloating the #collaboration category with more subcategories, or “sub-subcategories” is counterproductive
In my opinion, that would just make the category too cluttered and it may be confusing to new forum members so I think right now is okay.