Yeah, while I didn't mention it I agree with that. I still think the original plan remains the better solution, I had only mentioned the second best because I'm sure Don thought about that a bit before coming in and asking us, and while I agree with what TheQwerty said, one could also expect confusion coming from XY using Tag for one thing, and Tags (same thing, only plural form) for another thing entirely. (Not to mention someone using "tag" to talk about one of the Tags, as opposed to a Tag, the other feature that is.)TheQwerty wrote:I guess I'll be the one with the really unpopular answer. Don, take the time and make the changes.
Everything that uses tags allows many to be assigned, and bucking the convention serves the good of no one.
Using "keywords" instead is going to be confusing and it may well turn away new users who come in with the expectations of using multiple tags per item, search for Tagging, and don't get into the feature far enough to discover "keywords".
I think the discomfort now will be much less than what will come in the future by ignoring the standard, and it will be much more difficult to change then than it is now.
If Don thinks this conversion would require a lot of work & time (while not even removing all possible confusion, just switching from one to another), one has to take that into account, and comparing the confusions, maybe it's easier to deal with/explain that simply, in XY it's one tag, but many keywords per item. (As opposed to the whole Tag vs Tags.) The documentation could very well, under Tags, have a note specifying that while multiple tags per item isn't supported, it is doable using what's called Keywords.