I would get rid of the categories completely. The categories take up too much room on the screen. The main screen should just be a list of questions - just like any answers.
Much better to seed the tag list with the sort of keywords or phrases that might make good categories. That's what tags are - dynamic categories.
Dennis Howlett
· 3 years ago
Thanks Neil - that's a presentational issue that can be solved through judicious styling.
The object of putting in categories was to provide an *initial* organisational framework. It's what I see as a weakness with the Any Answers thing - makes initial visual discovery difficult.
One of the big problems with tagging as I perceive it is that everyone has a view on this and tags can vary enormously but I agree with you - seeding is a good idea.
You can of course take what I've done, play with it some more and then put it up as one you've rolled yourself.
Tom Raftery
· 3 years ago
Hey Dennis,
I heard of Ning but I haven't played with it.
A friend of mine created an app in it but was disappointed to discover that Ning maintains copyright over the app - he had a couple of email conversations with Ning about this and they said they were looking into changing that but afaik nothing has changed yet. This would deter me from using Ning I have to say.
Having said that, I'd be embarrassed to be putting anything I coded into a public forum - people's worst suspicions about my intellect would be confirmed!
Dennis Howlett
· 3 years ago
I guess the issue is one of figuring out how you can copyright something that's shared so the issue then becomes which is important, the app or the data? But then it's also a case of to what extent would people develop an ning app? Worth looking at though. I'll follow up...
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Much better to seed the tag list with the sort of keywords or phrases that might make good categories. That's what tags are - dynamic categories.
The object of putting in categories was to provide an *initial* organisational framework. It's what I see as a weakness with the Any Answers thing - makes initial visual discovery difficult.
One of the big problems with tagging as I perceive it is that everyone has a view on this and tags can vary enormously but I agree with you - seeding is a good idea.
You can of course take what I've done, play with it some more and then put it up as one you've rolled yourself.
I heard of Ning but I haven't played with it.
A friend of mine created an app in it but was disappointed to discover that Ning maintains copyright over the app - he had a couple of email conversations with Ning about this and they said they were looking into changing that but afaik nothing has changed yet. This would deter me from using Ning I have to say.
Having said that, I'd be embarrassed to be putting anything I coded into a public forum - people's worst suspicions about my intellect would be confirmed!