Categories, tags, or both?

Question

When it comes to sorting content, I am always embarrassed, as a rule, I will have categories and tags as reasonable options, nevertheless, I wonder when to use categories and when to use tags or even when to use them? Categories look simpler and easier to implement, and tags provide much more flexibility, but often prove to be too complex and affect usability. Think of del.icio.us, for example, finding content in thousands of tags is not interesting. At this point, I am making bets on categories more practical. Because, how delicious that really works, the hottest tags that I think are conceptually “categories”.

I saw that wordpress uses a common scheme to handle this. It implements a general taxonomy to deal with categories and tags in the same way. This makes the implementation a bit more complicated.

I would like to hear other people talking about it. Thank you

Answer 1

I am not sure that there is one correct answer to this question.

Tags are a paradigm that implies overlap , while categories mean without overlap .

Categories (like a flat list or hierarchy) have historically been most useful for organizing tens or hundreds of objects.

.

.

Answer 2

. SO ( ), - . , .

, , , , . , . ?

Answer 3

, "", , : (1) (2) ; CMS . , "" " ", . , CMS - , . .

Answer 4

, , . , , , , , ...

, , .

, " " " ", ". , , , 12 , ( ), , , , " !". .

: - , , (-) . : // , .

, , . , : /, .

Answer 5

, .

CMS "" "", "", " ", " " .. " ", " ", " ", "" ..

Answer 6

. , ;)

, , (/), () ? , .

, - CMS, (, , )?

I think the stackoverflow team decided to use tags. Question loads simply cannot be 100% placed in one category.

Still with both approaches you need to find a good balance: a million tags or a 20-level deep tree category will end in hell.