Add support for hashtags

[alimony]

Maybe I’m stating the obvious, but general support for hashtags would be really nice. Even in its simplest form (allow search for them + turn them into links in posts) it would be very valuable.

[Luke717]

I agree, hashtag support would be very useful precisely for the reasons you point out. Support wouldn't have to be as detailed or as complex as it is on, say, Twitter, just the simplest functionality mentioned to start with. It really would be a valuable feature.

[sirshannon]

I added this to the iOS client I'm working on because I "need" clickable hashtags. I did it the quickest and easiest way: when displaying posts, I use regex to find hashtags in the text and create facets that link to the search page and perform a search.
Bluesky search ignores the octothorp so I had planned to filter out search results that matched "searchterm" but not "#searchterm". After using it for a few minutes, I realized that's unnecessary. The biggest value-add is simply the hashtag facet + search, the filtering isn't required.

[Edit to say: I'm just adding this comment to as a +1 to the feature but also to say that, as a user, the relatively easy, minimal implementation I tried is enough to satisfy me (for now) as verified by daily usage and a test audience of 1 person.]

[muchmich]

I would like to suggest hashtags being "outside" of the post, more similar to tumblr's tagging system.
Something like this:


and clicking a tag wont show things that werent specifically tagged as such ie if you click the tag '#cat' you will only see posts tagged with the '#cat' and not posts that contain the word cat without it being tagged

[simonetthomas]

Out of curiosity : when it's implemented, will all the "hashtags" in existing posts turned into real clickable hashags ? Or would this only affect new posts ?

[Sininini]

I would prefer if all the existing "hashtags" got turned into real ones. People are already using them and it would be nice to not have to repost art and stuff just to redo the hashtags.

[danorton]

The ability to “follow” hashtags would also be helpful.

[8ullyMaguire]

Related to #1533: Comprehensive Tagging System.

Benefits of a comprehensive tagging system over hashtags:

• Filter sensitive content - Users can avoid content about phobias, traumatic events, etc. that they don't want to see
• More flexible searching - Combine, include, or exclude any tags
• Enhanced organization - Logical categorization for easier discovery
• Improved discovery - Browse and search tags to find relevant content
• Separate from content - Tags are non-disruptive metadata, hashtags are just spam
• Post-publish tagging - Improve organization after posting
• Granular feed curation - Highly customized feeds by tags

[RBeerDevelopment]

Just wanted to push this one again. Hashtag support would really be great and at least in my opinion having a minimal version first would be great. Extended features like having full tagging support could still be added in the future.
I'm also open to help work on this though I fully understand if this is something that the core team wants to handle

[Zero3K]

The eric/tags branch contains the work being done on implementing them.

EDIT: A PR of it has been made. It can be found at #2968.

[mschwendener]

This can be closed, no?

[Sininini]

They still haven’t added more than bare minimum for hashtags support. I personally would like to finally have outside tags support in the main app
Should this be closed and a new issue about the missing features created?

[woj-tek]

• More flexible searching - Combine, include, or exclude any tags

Yes, please! I use feeds and some auto-generated ones usually do a plain keyword search and if there is a topic overlap the feed is a very mixed content. Having an ability to save a search into a custom feed (with include/exclude tags) would be awesome.

For example there is JVM feed that includes "java", "kotlin" and "scala" so it has a lot of coffee posts or opera related stuff or... minecraft... which is a bit weird :)

[anentropic]

I would like to be able to treat a hashtag exactly like a feed, specifically to be able to follow it

also it's needlessly confusing that Feeds has this menu icon:

...when they are not the same as hashtags and behave differently