A universal tag list/system
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Hello, as someone who likes to find new light novels to read sometimes, I would love being able to use tags to find series I might be interested in. You can already do something similar to this, by going to Series, then selecting a novel, scroll down to the tags, and click on one. My problem with this, however, is that there doesn't seem to be a "universal" tag list, and there are multiple tags for the same thing, which makes it very annoying to search by tags.
For example (specifically novels only, I did not look if this was as big of a problem with manga as well):
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There are 4 novels with "OP Power" (Arifureta, Arifureta Zero, Lazy Dungeon Master & Smartphone).
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There are 20 novels with "OP Protagonist" (Too many to list)
From experience with these novels (except LDM, as I haven't read that (yet)), the OP Power tag seems very strange, and OP Protagonist would be way more fitting.
- Another thing is the "Fantasy World" tag. There are a bunch of novels (usually isekai) that have either the Fantasy tag, or the Fantasy World tag. For example: Smartphone has Fantasy, not Fantasy World. Meanwhile Isekai Tensei has Fantasy World, but not Fantasy.
This is very strange and makes finding new series sometimes very difficult, as instead of going to a series I like, looking over the tags, and going "Maybe there's another fantasy novel I can read", and click on the tag, I now have to look whether there is a similar tag, that another set of novels is hiding under. Fantasy has 115 titles, Fantasy World has 9 titles, when there's definitely more than 9 novels on here that are based in a fantasy world.
- Next tag we have "Another World", which only 6 novels have. All of these novels also have the Isekai tag, so the "Another World" tag is completely redundant, and just clutters up searching once again. One of them, even has a tag specifically "Two Worlds", which is the only book with that tag.
My suggestion boils down to a very simple thing. Make a universal tag list, that people have to use to tag the series. If everyone uses the same tag list to tag the series, searching will be many times easier, and it will be way better to manage as well.
If it would be possible to add the tag list on the left on the series sidebar, it would be even better, as now the only way to search for specific tags, is to look through books until you find one that has the specific tag you're looking for, and click it. It could be a listing the same way as currently, for example, publication status has, where it goes :
Publication Series- Show All
- Ongoing
- Complete
- On Hiatus
However, change it to the tags, so for example:
Tags- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Isekai
- OP Protagonist
etcetera.
I hope this can be considered, and implemented as well. Thank you for reading this suggestion
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Thanks for your suggestion! We have actually have overhauling our category/tag system on our list already, so we hope to get that done at some point next year!
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Just make sure there's a tag for 'head pats'...
No one ever tags 'head pats', and they really should.