I think this will be useful in the long run, though I don’t know if that’s possible in discourse
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Sounds like a good idea. I’ve also added tags for each compiler version if a post is about a particular version.
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Shouldn’t this also be updated? Adding a sentence which says that you should, or it’s a good idea to include a Typst version tag (e.g., v0-11-1) to your topic if it makes sense.
Although I don’t know if adding 2 similar tags for the same version is good (v0111, for example, which also is not readable at all, IMO). It’s enough to type #v and all the versions will show up.
Wouldn’t it be answers that should get tagged, not questions?
- Can answers be tagged in the first place?
- It depends on the question. Maybe it goes likes “I’m using v0.10.0 and …”.
Without a concrete example, it’s hard to decide/know for sure.
You can use tags in answers like this: meta (#meta).
I think the goal in using tags specifically in the answers is to make them searchable or something. I think adding a tag inside of an answer does nothing. You might as well just use a more readable v0.11.1 or v0.11.1 instead.
Well, it seems you can search tags in replies if you click the 
icon on the top bar and then search for /tag/TAGNAME (not #TAGNAME, which is limited to topics¹ only).
¹ A topic in Discourse-ese means the first post in a thread (OP).
Huh, strange. I can’t find this in Searching for content effectively - Using Discourse - Discourse Meta, but there is something close mentioned here: Intersection tag + category - support - Discourse Meta. But I don’t think it is meant to be put into the search bar, rather in the URL.
Do you know the source/docs of this feature?
No, I came across it by accident: it showed up as the context of something else I searched…
Anyway, even if they are not searchable, using tags in answers have at least four advantages over plain text:
- clicking on them leads to a page listing all topics tagged with the tag in question.
- they look distinct from the body of the text, which semantically marks them as abstract (meta).
- they make a closed (yet expandable) set, which helps in standardisation.
- maybe in the future it will be possible to search answers with a tag in an elegant, easy and not-hackish way.
Did you not try this? It does work.
Screenshots
Using raw/code formatting also makes the wrapped text distinct from the rest of the message.
Sounds like a good issue in the Discourse repository. At least an official documentation would be nice. Also you probably shouldn’t count this as an advantage if this does not exist. :)
The tag synonyms without a space were a mistake (dots are automatically removed). I removed the synonyms.