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Comments on Use tags instead of posts to describe sites?
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Use tags instead of posts to describe sites?
Is it better to put site proposal descriptions in tag descriptions, rather than posts?
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We talked about using tag descriptions instead of the Descriptions category, but there were a few issues:
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We want the people interested in a proposal to be able to collaboratively edit the description. That's not possible with tag descriptions today. (Yes that's on our list.)
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We wanted it to be easy to see a list of current, active proposals. If that information were in tags, you'd have to sort through the tags list looking for the ones with the special formatting, and (when we get there) it would include archived proposals too.
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We wanted to allow comments. While bigger discussions about, for example, scope should be on Meta, comments are a good way to sort out questions and clarifications.
It's true that some site functionality doesn't make as much sense in the Descriptions category: each post will only have one (unique) tag, and sorting is not meaningful. The proposals community operates differently from all the others, and we didn't think these quirks would get in the way.
Another answer suggests that if we got rid of the Descriptions category, it would let the Incubator Q&A category be the main one. That's something we can change anyway; the first position in the list isn't magic. I, too, have been wondering if that would be a better default than the descriptions -- take people to the active Q&A and they can look up the proposals later. If I don't hear any strong objections, I'll plan to make that change soon.
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