The features below are more advanced, but still fairly simple to use.
Create your own favourite tags list
You can modify the list of tags displayed in the side bar to show your own favourite tags. Hover your mouse over the TAGS section in the sidebar…
This will display a pencil icon in the top right corner (I can’t easily screenshot this). Click on the icon to display “Edit tags navigation”…
Tick the box next to the tags you want as your favourites. Only five tags can be displayed in the side bar so if you select more than five then you may not see your most favourit tags.
Click “Save Changes” to save your selection and the side bar should update to show those tags.
Tracking tags
You can configure your preferences to track tags, i.e. whether you will be notified or not when selected tags are added to topics.
Your tracking preferences are in your profile - https://discourse.weather-watch.com/my/preferences/tracking
At the bottom of this page you can set how you want to track categories or tags. You can still track categories, but with fewer now available this isn’t as useful as it once was. However, you may find tag tracking useful now.
There are 4 ways to track tags. In any of these, click the ‘+’ to select tags as described in the other Tag Knowledge topics.
Watched - You will be notified of any new topics with these tags, or new posts in topics with these tags. A count of new posts will also appear next to topics with these tags.
Tracked - Topics with these tags will be tracked. You won’t be notified when new topics are created with these tags, or when new posts are made to them, but a count of new posts will appear next to any topics with these tags.
Watching First Post - When a new topic is created with one of these tags you will be notified. Subsequent posts to the topic will not be notified. This allows you to see when new topics are created but not get multiple notifications for each new post. It may be useful to select the same tags for “Tracked” and “Watching First Post”. Then you are notified about new posts and can see when posts are created by watching the new posts count for the topic.
Muted - If there are tags that you have no interest in, you can add them here. There will beno notifications for new topics or posts for these tags and the topics won’t appear in the ‘Latest’ view.
Even more Advanced Search
You can search using multiple tags using Advanced Search, but there are some search methods that you can only achieve by typing!
The previous examples given have search strings like:
solar tags:wd+pws-dashboard+davis - Find posts with all three tags and the word ‘solar’
solar tags:wd,pws-dashboard,davis - Find posts with any of the three tags and the word ‘solar’
Sometimes you might want to exclude certain tags. You can do this using ‘-tags:’ in the search string, e.g.
solar tags:pws-dashboard+davis -tags:wd - Find posts with both ‘davis’ and ‘pws-dashboard’ tags that DON’T have the tag ‘wd’
solar tags:pws-dashboard,davis -tags:wd - Find posts with either ‘davis’ or ‘pws-dashboard’ tags that DON’T have the tag ‘wd’
You can only achieve this by editing the search string. There is no graphical interface way to achieve the same result.