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Anyone else having trouble ADDING tags?
All leaders of my community are presently experiencing trouble adding tags. When we try, we get a big red banner that says "validation failed".
This is when we are in the leader dashboard to add tags. Like if I wanted to add a tag for "Meta Discussion", I can't do that right now.




That's probably because y'all have like 5000 tags and we just added a limit for the number of tags you can have. Sorry! We may need to work on improving that error messaging.
For what purpose was a limit instated?
Honestly, partially because your community was (intentionally) breaking stuff and it was impossible to make that look in any way reasonable in our UI.
Unfortunately it looks like the tag edit menu is still broken, even with the current limits on tags, and even if only half the tag-space available is used.
To test, I've added the tag "normal tag[number]" to one my communities 49 time as a leader tag, and then tried editing a post. The top and bottom of the selection menu is still cut off on my (admittedly slightly outdated) 768p screen, and it's most likely going to be the case on a bigger screen as well, if both the leader and the community tag slots are filled with tags.
To be honest, it seems like the best solution here is just adding a scrollbar to the tag selection menu in addition to, or even instead of, imposing a limit on the number of a tags a community can have.
The more likely solution is I will be changing the limit on the server side to match the UI.
Is the restriction based on size of individual tags, number of tags in total, or total number of characters in all the tags?
both the number of tags and the number of characters should now be restricted, I believe.
I'm mobile though and not totally confirming this. It's my day off in theory and I'm chilling out drinking beers and stuff.
Does this mean that I will no longer be able to create a tag containing the entire written works of Shakespeare? Is it enforced server-side?
While I applaud you on your high brow shitposting and interest in classical literature, yes I believe that should now be restricted server side.
There's a limit of 100 characters per tag, plus 44 normal tags.
Note that neither of these limits apply to leader tags, probably because they forgot adding them.
Edit: looks like this has been fixed
Cheers!
I can confirm that this restriction is now server-side.
I am now going to go add a large number of tags to my community
Incorrect. Leader and non leader tags are limited from the back end, to 50 of each. The character limit is 100 characters and universal.
then I'm either unable to count or doing something very wrong, because I can't add any tags in my community that has exactly 44 tags.
Edit: looks like I was indeed doing something wrong, deleted all the tags and recreated them, and now I can properly create 50 normal and 49 leader tags.
At some point in time, you have to be aware that you are circumventing an aspect of the system in order to abuse it.
Sure we are, but we're not doing so maliciously. This thing is in beta, and we're finding bugs in it and telling the devs about it. If you'd like us to not do that just say so.
If it's breaking leaders being able to add tags to posts, you could add a scroll bar over that prompt so that we can properly go through it, rather than limiting the number/size of tags.
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Not sure what you're talking about, mind chatting to me about it via intercom?
Sure I can try. In the middle of the woods right now on a satellite connection.