Tag Clouds For Every App Store Category • Hacker News Board

Re: Tag Clouds For Every App Store Category

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Post by pclark » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 8:01 PM UTC

they missed the news category..

Re: Tag Clouds For Every App Store Category

#3

Post by dbachelder » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 8:07 PM UTC

pclark wrote: post #2

they missed the news category..

Nice catch. It's up there now. Thanks!

Re: Tag Clouds For Every App Store Category

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Post by andrewljohnson » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 8:44 PM UTC

This is kind of fun to look at, but I wish tag clouds would die the innocuous death they deserve. They are basically a useless, and worse a distracting, UI element. If you have a tag cloud on your blog, you're not doing yourself any favors.

Re: Tag Clouds For Every App Store Category

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Post by jfno67 » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 8:52 PM UTC

What would be nice now is a tag cloud of all the search the app store is getting...

Re: Tag Clouds For Every App Store Category

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Post by joshu » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 9:05 PM UTC

andrewljohnson wrote: post #4

This is kind of fun to look at, but I wish tag clouds would die the innocuous death they deserve. They are basically a useless, and worse a distracting, UI element. If you have a tag cloud on your blog, you're not doing yourself any favors.

I blame flickr.