fupdec
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3 years ago I understand what is meant by tags in a topic. but it is better to implement it not with tags, but by adding new parameters to items.
I will explain with an example what is the difference. if you want to add a new category of tags for ear size, then for brevity you will make tags named small, medium, large. and if you want to add a lip category in the future, you run into a naming problem. you will have to name the tags with their full names. and in the database you will have a bunch of similar tags "small ears", "medium ears", "large ears", etc.
Parameters more accurately describe the type and in the future it will be possible to make a more precise search by parameters. there will be several types of parameters: array (for several values), boolean (only two values - true or false), string and number.
This is not an easy task that will only be done after I rewrite the filtering for all items. I understand how different preferences users can have and the parameters will provide them with the opportunity to create a base corresponding to their preferences most accurately.
As the title says and like we discussed it in private, custom tag types would allow anyone to organize videos in a much more flexible way. So instead of having just "video" and "performer" categories, you could have personnal things like "look attributes", "level of softness/hardcoreness", "censored/not censored", "number of performers", "type of video", ...
With that, i don't know if it will be necessary to constraint "video tags" to videos and "performer tags" to performer. Maybe just put a "tags" tab, and let users do their own categories and assign the tags wherever they want :)
I know it's more appealing to have prebuilt categories for new users, so you can keep "video tags" and "performer tags" as default tag categories, but then you should create a list of these categories and allow the user to activate, desactivate, delete, rename, manage them. Maybe like playlists.