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RE: Tag Cloud Makeup Continued

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:14:39 GMT

I have to write it for you, because I haven't read it anywhere, I just constructed the equation myself. Here you go: Let's say you want your your tags in sizes from 1 to 10, according to their counts. I'll use pseudocode here. You define boundaries: pmin <- 1 pmax <- 10 Then you calculate the min and max values from your tags: vmin <- min(values) vmax <- max(values) Now, let's say you have a tag with 'x' occurences. The log-size of your tag is: int((pmax - pmin) * (log(x)) / (log(vmax)) + pmin) - 1 reply

RE: Tag Cloud Makeup

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:27:13 GMT

What I dislike about current tagclouds is that there is ONE HUGE TAG, and 90% of the remainig tags are very small. It looks like the cloud is 90% trash. I suggest: - Filtering out the least frequent tags - Applying a logarightm function to the tag sizes. It will reduce the graphical domination of the most frequent tags. I did it with my project: http://automatthias.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/size-and-color/ and it works fine. - 2 replies

Frontpage views

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:49:32 GMT

I'm thinking about what to show on the frontpage of Blogoforum. A list of recent discussion like currently present is a must of course. And so is the tagcloud. There are different tagclouds to consider, however. I can think of two: 1. A "what's being talked about now" tagcloud with popular tags in the past x days. 2. A more general "what's being talked about" with all-time tag popularity. Although this is probably less useful. Then what also would be interesting is a list of "hot" topics, topics that got the most hits or most replies, or the most replies in a short period of time. I think some sort of digg/reddit-like voting system is necessary too. But you already looked into that I saw somewhere. This rating also should be taking into account with the "what's hot" topic list.

Forum Groups are in development - your opinion?

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:56:49 GMT

Hey Zef, Thanks for joining Blogoforum and for the post! I'm preparing new method for message organization. The idea in short is: let the user to describe a tag or a set of tags, naming it "group" or "forum", thus providing more advanced "get a forum" functionality. Then we can describe a forum on software and recognize a subforum on programming within it, then we can recognize and describe a forum on PHP within it. That's the way to go. I wrote this in a hurry working on actual implementation so the description is a bit chaotic but you have me here willing to answer questions. What do you think about it? - 1 reply

Trying out blogoforum

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:55:36 GMT

This looks quite nice, definitely the best tag-based forum I've seen so far. For some reason it still appears to me as a bit messy though, have to figure out what exactly it is that makes it look a bit messy. - 2 replies

Edit tags for a post

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:24:08 GMT

I just noticed something that could be helpful. If you look at the Wordpress forums (http://wordpress.org/support/), you'll see they use tags there too. However, the entire thread is tagged - not every individual post. This may be against your entire idea, but I think I like that better. Or, it would be nice if someone could add or edit tags to their original post. - 1 reply

Similar to Vennt

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:40:58 GMT

Check out vennt.net when you get a chance... similar idea of pivoting on users and tags (i.e. applying del.icio.us practices to discussion boards). - 1 reply