[PSA] Tags For Visual Novel Talk

[Nosebleed]

Quick annoucement letting everyone know we just implemented prefixed tags on the Visual Novel Talk board.

 

For those who don't know what that is, they're icons that appear on a thread when you're browsing the forums. You can see how they look like in the Ongoing Projects section.

 

These help indexing threads in encompassing categories, thus optimizing searches for similar content.

Additionaly, by using this system, more threads that use similar tags can be suggested to a user at the bottom of each thread. (it looks like this)

Overall, it's a more effective way of tagging things and something we've wanted to implement for a while but everyone just kept forgetting about

 

For now this feature is being launched to the public first in the Visual Novel Talk board, but the plan is to expand it to other boards as we see fit.

More tags can be added to this list as well, but these should be fairly encompassing for most threads.

 

 

List of Tags currently available:

 

VN Release

Threads annoucing a particular visual novel release.

 

Patch Release

Threads annoucing translation patches or other types of visual novel patches released.

 

News

News related to a particular title or the visual novel industry/world in general.

 

Discussion

General visual novel discussion. Threads for discussing a particular visual novel, a scene in a visual novel and general visual novel aspects you can think of.

 

Analysis

Extensive analyisis threads of certain visual novels or things pertaining to visual novels.

 

Review

Threads reviewing visual novels.

 

Let's Play

Threads with visual novel Let's play videos

 

Podcast

Visual Novel podcast threads

 

Help

Looking for a walkthrough or have an important question about a visual novel you need answers to immediately? This is the tag for those threads.

Note: For threads asking questions but have the intent of turning into proper discussions, use the discussion tag as prefix instead.

 

 

 

How to use prefixed tags:

 

1) Check the "Use first tag as prefix" box and click on the "Add a tag" button to open a drop down menu with all the available tags and select the one you want as your main tag, this should be the one that best describes the type of content in your thread.

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2) After you select the tag you want as your prefix, you're free to add aditional tags after it as well, but these will just remain regular tags. The prefixed tag will be highlited as opposed to the normal tags and it should look something like this:

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3) Post your thread like you normally would and the prefixed tag should now appear behind your thread's title when browsing the VN board.

[Chronopolis]

*fanfare*~~

[GLM4475]

A nice feature, it's useful and makes it easier to search similar topics.