XF 1.5 State of Hashtags, with and without add-ons

[Steve Freides]

What is the current state of hashtags in XF? I found a $25 for-purchase option - is that the way to do this for now?

The situation I'm trying to solve - please suggest a non-hashtag way if you've got one - is people following a six-week protocol in which they pre-test, do the protocol, then post-test. I'm trying to make it easier for the protocol's administrator to find all the posts with test results. Because each protocol is in a private sub-forum, they're scattered and hashtags seem like a good solution.

Thanks in advance.

-S-

 

[Mike]

By hash tags, I assume you mean #hashtags in posts. There's nothing built in to explicitly support that.

Otherwise, if there are threads for each, you could just use the standard tagging system to identify the threads.

 

[Steve Freides]

As we are currently doing this, each user creates their own thread in the private sub-forum for their protocol, so the posts I'm trying to isolate will be near the beginning and the end of lengthy threads. Tagging a post rather than a thread would, well, it would be just like a hashtag.

-S-