What are some ideas for tags on dev.to?

Ben started #explainlikeimfive last week. I'd love to hear ideas on other tags we could organize around!!

Comments

[Damien Cosset]

I'm not sure how I could phrase this one but: some tag for people looking to work on a project together. Side projects are interesting and all that but it can be a lonely task sometimes. I don't know if some dev.to strangers would be willing to collaborate on a interesting project someone brings up. I imagine that could be about a lot of different things: some programming side-project, open source stuff, writing an e-book....

Not sure about the potential of that one though :D

#collaboration, #cooperation

[Ben Halpern]

I like the idea of a tag for folks to share the tech stacks they are working with, and commenters can ask questions about any of them. I'm not sure about naming it though.

#mystack
#ourstack
#techstacks
#stacks
#stackshowandtell
#devstacks
#ourtech

etc. etc.

Anybody have any thoughts about a good name for that one?

[Lorenzo Pasqualis]

One more suggestion: #project, to be used to find developers interested in collaborating on some development project.

[Kim Arnett ]

help or #advice - for those who seek mentorship.

Might be a stretch but #showcase for people to brag about stuff they've done?

[Ben Halpern]

Yeah these are great thoughts. I like #showcase. Someone made a post with #showdev as a tag and we have a few posts under that. What are folks' thoughts on the naming of that? Either could work for me. Early on it's easy for us to change tag names and port the posts over.

Technically, it wouldn't ever be a problem, but once a tag sticks, it would be harder to change the name for the community, so we try to get the name just right.

I like #advice, again, I would love folks thoughts about the naming of that. Is #advice the ideal, or maybe #seekingadvice for example?

[rouzbeh]

I like this idea a lot too but do think #advice-needed or #freeAdvice (not so good i know) or some namespacing for need/give on a lot of tags could help? i think this confusion seems to plague a lot of forums i'm in as lots of people need help and lots of people love to share their work/advice/tips/opinions/etc...

[Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers]

Something like #mistake, where you talk about (technical) decisions you made that turned out to be a mistake, and how you corrected course.

[Jess Lee]

Ended up going with #ourstack!

[Ben Halpern]

But it's still up for discussion early on. My thought was that #mystack could apply to more solo projects. 🙂

[Vincent Grovestine]

#poll ??

Of course, this would mean rolling a poll widget generator into the markdown editor.

[Ben Halpern]

Yeah, this has been in my mind for a while. We'll put it on the backlog.

[Paolo Melchiorre]

'#talks'

For conference presentations or similar

[Jess Lee]

Love that! We've thought about adding some type of 'slides' support.

[Matt Silverman]

Perhaps something like #DevMemes for people to just share funny memes centered around programming as silly as it sounds.

[Lenmor Ld]

#askingforafriend

Like you know, ...., something someone is embarrassed to ask, but still ask in the name of courage (or my friend really wants to know) 😄💪