Post by KingBell🗡️ in TAG Merges and Recommendations for easier Search, Clarity and Discovery

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Hey @RedoniHunter, thanks for replying. ItchIO Admin are able to do Tag Merges; it's been done before, my friend.

Tag Merge process is in this Admin thread: Tag merges and suggestions - Feature Discussion - itch.io. The Admin @leafo has done merges over the last year.

Merging a tag will update the taggings of any projects that use the old tag, additionally if anyone in the future tries to use it, it will automatically be renamed to the merged tag

My recommendations above are based on the ~615 Tags that we can see on https://itch.io/tags page as well as the drop-down tags menu in the upper right-hand corner.

The All Tags page and the Drop-down doesn't truly show every single tag. But is it the first and only tag listing the average user runs in to, so it makes sense to actively clean up what we can see and optimize with merges along the way. Especially since it's also linked as "View All Tags" in the Browse Project / Games Search Bar. :)

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redonihunter8 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

The tag merges done were for synonyms. Not for stuff being similar. Have you seen any examples for merges that were not mere synonyms or different spelling? In the thread you linked I could not find any.

From your suggestions, endless + infinity runners seem to be synonyms and could be merged. Maybe others, I did not scrutinze everything.

For contrast, a wordle is not a crossword puzzle. Dark Fantasy is not of the horror genre. While webcomics are comics, comics are not webcomis, even if you sell them on the web. As for splitting, you are right, non-linear does not say much, if used alone. But that is why you have 10 tags and 1 genre. It is the combination. Just like an example in the merge thread: puzzle + endless. It is usage of both tags that give meaning.

That this list is called "all" tags, is bugging me too. It should be called suggested tags or something like that.

Edit: I just checked, the "merges" are done with aliases. As long as they use the word alias for this mechanic, I would assume they will only "merge" synonyms and different spellings.

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