I’m currently thinking about reorganising how we use the tags before the site gets too cumbersome to use. I think it might be best to remove the gaming tab entirely and just assume that we are after all a gaming forum.
The problem is that we can’t nest 3 tags deep. so we can’t for example, structure it so we have gaming > soulslikes > Dark Souls. We can only have gaming > genre and then let specific games float in the ether. That is problematic, because we can’t currently search post titles. This way, if we search for Dark Souls, then anything tagged with Dark Souls will ping. Then we can have separate threads for separate aspects of our favourite games instead fo trying to keep it one thread.
So I think removing gaming as a top level tag is the best way forward. Then each genre is a top level tag and we can introduce game titles as secondary tags for each genre as and when the need arises, just using similar criteria to when we added new game sections in the old forums.
The tag shifting will be relatively simple; but then sorting our already large number of threads into relevant tags might be an issue. So I may need the help of other mods to just pick away at the task over time.
Thoughts?
Edit: I’ll also colour code the main tags to make things more usable once we’ve got that done.