Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Tag-based file organization
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2016–2022), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Tag-based systems become an unusable mess once people organize files with them2022-02-25
- Tags get duplicated under variant names and files are hard to discover2022-02-24
- Tags get harder to apply, find and organize as they multiply2021-11-07
- Duplicate and inconsistent tags make files harder to view and scan2018-04-05
- Large tag clouds are next to impossible to explore efficiently, unlike hierarchies2018-04-05
- Users feel they cannot search their data exhaustively and might lose files2016-05-09