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Styling language tags

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(Continued discussion of a specific idea from What tag hierarchy and ontology should Linguistics use?)

As you've probably noticed, we have the ability to put style tags differently. For example, the discussion, feature-request, support, and bug tags have a different color scheme from the other tags (and are also displayed before the others).

For context, there are three types of tag styling:

  • Required tags: a question must use at least one from a defined set. The four dark-blue meta tags are defined like this.

  • Topic tags: not required (a question doesn't have to use any of them), but they get special styling when they're used.

  • Moderator-only tags: like the status tags; not applicable here but included for completeness.

I suggest we set language tags as topic tags so they stand out more.

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curiousdannii‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

Why do you think language tags should stand out more? Won't the languages be pretty obvious from the question titles?

Moshi‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

@curiousdannii It's just a small thing we can do, and I don't see any reason not to have this.

curiousdannii‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

Well if it's not useful then it's visual noise.

fedorqui‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

I like the idea. Also, the language tags could appear first on the list of tags, instead of interleaved (I guess the sorting now is based on the number of questions using each tag). This way it is easier to see the language they are talking about with a glimpse.