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I think lobsters needs a 'community' tag for posts about developer communities and culture. Description: "Developer communities and culture" Some examples of posts that would fit here that don't currently belong to any other category: - This slide deck about making hackathons more accessib...

I'd like to propose adding a tag for CSS. We already have a `javascript` tag, it only makes sense to have a `css` tag as well. I know this has been brought up before, but I think there are articles where the combination of `web` and `design` tags doesn't quite cut it, for example: * [Why there...

**Intro** I think there's enough formal methods fans posting and discussing this here that it'd be nice to have a specific tag for it. Some of the things it would cover: * Specification Techniques: TLA+, Alloy, Z notation * Model Checking: bisimulation, state machines * Verifiable Languages:...

There are a reasonable number of AI stories submitted here, but no good tag for it. *Some* fit in [`cogsci`](https://lobste.rs/t/cogsci), but a lot of the AI stuff filed there is a bit of a stretch to call cognitive science, and just submitted there for lack of a better place ([example](https://lobs...

Hi, I propose to add a tag `machinelearning` or `data-science` or something of the like. I know there is `ai`, however, for most submissions in the field I don't consider it to be a good fit, as the term is very vague and for that reason is avoided like the plague by many machine learning engi...

Proposal for a new tag, `d`, for articles about the programming language [D](https://dlang.org/). Spurred by [this thread](https://lobste.rs/s/b4qki7/advent_d#c_wzpmbc). There is just enough posting about it to warrant a tag, imo. Pragmatically it would be nice because it's otherwise not easy to sea...

We last proposed this [4 months ago](https://lobste.rs/s/iguutg/tag_suggestion_apl). Since then, we've seen the following new APL-related posts: * [The Problem with APLs](https://lobste.rs/s/uia33s/problem_with_apls) * [Calculating Burn Rates in J](https://lobste.rs/s/r8tahw/calculating_burn_rat...

It's strange, if one wants to post news about Vim or Emacs, there's a special tag for that, but there aren't special tags for news about Sublime Text, VSCode, jEdit, nano, Kakoune, Atom, IntelliJ, or any number of other editors and IDEs.

Proposal for a new tag `julia` for [Julia programming language](https://julialang.org/). * [Julia 0.6 release notes](https://lobste.rs/s/bcyfic) * [Generic GPU Kernels in Julia](https://lobste.rs/s/arbcx8) * [Fast array slicing in Julia](https://lobste.rs/s/8wuen9) * [Extensible broadcast fusi...

Proposal for a new tag *osdev* for **less known operating systems**. Here some example that in my opinion should be tagged with it: - [Node9, an OS based on Inferno, LuaJIT, and Libuv](https://lobste.rs/s/ael570/node9_os_based_on_inferno_luajit_libuv) - [9FRONT "MARITIME ENGINEERING STANDARDS...

We've had some submissions recently that are basically just CVE announcements. Some folks think these are interesting, some folks think these are spam. The traditional way of handling this is to open the floor to discussion, so I'd like to propose a `CVE` tag. Examples: * [Rust core library...

I'd like to propose the tag **`textprocessing`** for stories relating to text processing through computers. This means LaTeX, troff and other methods of computerized typesetting in particular, but would also include things like [mandoc](https://mandoc.bsd.lv/) as a tool and formats like Markdown or ...

Proposal for a new tag ***shell*** meant for shells and possibly command line tricks. This would cover zsh, bash, shell completion, in development shells, and anything else that pops up. Sample posts: - https://lobste.rs/s/ad3apl/osh_oil_shell_0_6_pre16_now_available_aur - https://lobste.rs/s...

I post this in response to the lack of a Julia tag for articles like this: * https://lobste.rs/search?order=newest&q=domain:julialang.org * https://lobste.rs/s/l9nzb2/julia * https://lobste.rs/s/4oiipw/why_i_m_betting_on_julia * https://lobste.rs/s/vmdb9v/julia_language_for_scientific_computin...

We had a lot of e-mail related submissions recently, and they were mostly tagged with "programming", sometimes with "devops", and sometimes with something like "api": * https://lobste.rs/s/lg3bmp/you_should_not_run_your_mail_server * https://lobste.rs/s/zwqoxw/dark_internet_mail_environment * h...

Someone raised this [a year ago](https://lobste.rs/s/jmldlr/tag_proposal_machine_learning_data) but didn't provide examples, so I'd like to reraise it. **Description:** "statistics and data science" **Similar Tags** * _AI_. Some overlap with machine learning, and there's a lot of AI that _u...

Proposal for a new tag `zig` that would apply to posts using the [Zig](https://ziglang.org) programming language. I think there is enough posting about it to warrant a tag. Here are a few posts that would benefit from such a tag: - https://lobste.rs/s/bw50qk/0_4_0_release_notes_zig_programming...

Instead of manually adding tags, why not do something like this: - Each post can have at most one 'new' tag. - A tag is no longer 'new' when it has had N stories with X upvotes. - After a tag is no longer 'new', it is the same as any other tag. Abused tags will be noticed and removed by mode...

There's been a bunch of emulation-related stories lately. I find they'd be easier to filter for/against if they were tagged with a new "emulation" tag. Description could be something in the lines of "Imitating the behavior of a hardware system", but I am not convinced. Please reply if you can ...

I propose a new tag for the language Raku (*né* Perl 6). Currently the `perl` tag is applied to Raku stories. Rationale: renaming Perl 6 to Raku acknowledged that Raku and Perl 5 are separate languages with a common root. Having a separate tag will both enable Raku enthusiasts to promote the lan...

The Ada programming language has been experiencing some kind of renaissance and the frequency of Ada stories has been increasing over the past few years. I think it makes sense to create a tag for this language, both for people who'd like to ignore it and for those who'd like to never miss a story a...

Hi! There are quite a few posts here about Forth and other concatenative / stack languages, an average of more than one a week; maybe worthy of a `forth` tag? Below are 12 posts from the past 2 months; I'll concede that there was a burst last week on May Forth (haha), and that two of these were subm...

Observability is a corner stone of software development, and I feel like it has gotten a lot of traction and changes in the past few years (I'd link that to the release of the SRE book). The tag would cover all stories revolving around observability, whether the tools, or the ways to improve it i...

With the increased interest in the [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) (encompassing applications using ActivityPub, Diaspora and others), I believe the time has come for a dedicated tag. This will enable users to filter these stories, especially as they tend to shade into cultur...

Stuff like "what are you doing this week" and "what are you doing this weekend" could fit under this tag. Other things like "what are you favorite x,y,z" as well. The `rant` and `ask` tags could be retired. Can also cover opinion pieces.`social` tagged posts should probably also have negative weight...

There have been a lot of posts about ChatGPT and other large language models as of late, and I want to filter them out without filtering the entire `ai` tag. I propose making a tag for large language models (llm) so that we can filter these properly. Some posts that would benefit from such a tag ...

Hi, I don't know if this is the proper way to propose a new tag but it seems like the most natural approach. Robotics seems like a field very well aligned with the Lobsters spirit. And I think the field is sufficiently different from existing tags to warrant a new tag. Last, there are probably peopl...

Name: editors Description: Text editors Similar tags: emacs (Emacs editor), vim (Vim editor) Previous proposal: [Is it time for an editors tag?](https://lobste.rs/s/pr87ke) Following stories since 2023 qualify for the tag. Editors stories are usually highly upvoted. They have been posted...

There are a lot of repeat posts such as "What are people doing this week?" or "What are people doing this weekend?". When I see them on Twitter, I can unfollow the person and I won't see it again. There doesn't seem to be a tag for these repeat posts. I propose we add a tag for them, so people wh...

I feel like Lobste.rs' and Hacker News' front pages are converging more and more. It gets redundant and boring. In scope: Stories you found on HN and reposted to Lobste.rs. Not in scope: Stories you found on your own that were previously featured on HN. Stories you authored and posted in both....