On 09/04/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 4/9/07 6:47 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
What is more likely to happen - and has momentum - is that categories will become more like tags. At this point, expect this vast hierarchy of category trees to get switched sideways.
I'm not sure what you mean here; please explain a little more, David.
Tags, like on FlickR, blog posts and so forth. So rather than [[Category:Left-handed Jewish Chinese lesbian computer scientists]], you'd have "left-handed", "Jewish", "Chinese", "lesbian" and "computer scientist" applied separately. The whole point being to be able to query the intersections between tags.
That bit's the hard part - getting complicated tag queries not to cripple the database. (And you can bet people will do the most complicated queries imaginable the moment they can.) I'm not sure how close the work is to being fit to release onto the live servers without crippling the database, but I do know that's the direction it's going in.
- d.