Tags are a system of filtering I've never really liked. There's always another tag to add, another synonym, or phrase &c. Even then, descriptive tags can only be as accurate as the words used to create them; for example, the tag "game" could be used to describe sports, board games, video games, &c.
Although, I admit hashtags have the advantage of allowing user to stick to subjects that really interest them, and add a certain customization to the forum experience... And of course, there are those that much prefer this system.
I think the final version of Bungie.next should be a blend of the new and old topic filtration system. Allow users to search the forums using only tags, or just look through each separate forum. Allow them to blend forums, add tags to this blend and name it. Just require users to select a forum when creating subject, and add as many tags as they want. This way, users can have the customized experience tags give them, and more.
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Necro
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I think the tags could still be used for personal reasons, like keeping an update on a certain topic that people might talk about, but it's much easier with Bungie at the reigns of the public Forum sections
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I really don't like this tab system. They need to find some way to have different forums, since everything is just kind of there with no rhyme or reason.
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I want a segregation of forums, because I'm seeing a lot of threads that are not necessarily "community" and should be more "offtopic" bleeding into both categories. But that's just my opinion. I really do enjoy the tagging system though.
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I honestly don't see a difference. right now you have your followed tags on the left bar. If you were to just remove the pound symbol, they essentially would be identical to forum categorization like we had before. The only difference now is that we also have the ability to view all forums together.