Oh no, I broke the pluralstories code! D:

[lb_lee]

EDIT: Solution in progress! Thanks, friends!

Sneak: Soooo, it turns out my clever solution to the plural tagging problem by batch-renaming them as "1+" means that I can no longer get the "AND" command working to cross-reference multiple 1+ tags. It seems that adding the + sign (or any symbol that isn't a letter or number) changes the 1+ tag URL from pluralstories.dreamwidth.org/tag/plural:blahblahblah to pluralstories.dreamwidth.org/?tag=1%2B:blahblahblah. The OR command still seems to work (apparently it's the default if you just list the comments, as shown with https://pluralstories.dreamwidth.org/?tag=1%2B:relationships:romantic,1%2B:creator+speaks+from+experience,price:free ) but...

That... is a major problem. Like, I know kludging together the tag URLs for cross-referencing is really hard on mobile in general, but at least it wasn't IMPOSSIBLE. The whole reason I wanted to set it up this way was so people could cross-reference multiple tags at once and make sure they only got things that pinged ALL the correct tags!

I am also not sure how to FIX it. Like, batch renaming the tag to "plural" again has the same problems as before. Numbers get boosted up the ranks, but >1 just broke things completely, and any other number choice would be totally arbitrary.

The only other solution I can think of is to figure out a "1+" synonym that ranks alphabetically between "about" and "access," which is... I don't know any. (And "access" also doesn't come with any synonyms I can think of easily to give more wiggle room.)

Nooooooo. I tried too hard to be clever and reap my folly. T_T

Comments

[marzicastella]

I'm told that's URI encoding, (%2B is +) and Leif can tell you more about how to fix this tomorrow. One option might be to have the tag be 1-Plus.

[pantha]

I was going to suggest the same: 1plus or 1-plus or similar would work and retain the same meaning of the original without getting all tripped up by the encoding.

[lb_lee]

Sneak: I considered doing that, but making this post made me realize that kludging together the URL from those bits, even corrected, would be kind of hard for most people on mobile (and a lot of people who aren't used to it in general). So I decided to commission a friend to make a sort of fill-out form allowing people to check boxes for which tags to see! It's something that should probably be done anyway.

[pantha]

Oh, awesome! Extra functionality sounds super-cool. <3

[lb_lee]

Sneak: I considered doing that, but making this post made me realize that kludging together the URL from those bits, even corrected, would be kind of hard for most people on mobile (and a lot of people who aren't used to it in general). So I decided to commission a friend to make a sort of fill-out form allowing people to check boxes for which tags to see! It's something that should probably be done anyway.

[anyoneeb]

Adding &mode=and (or &mode=all, both appear to do the same thing) appears to get the behavior you describe. I found that from this 14 year old(!) suggestion (linked from this 9 year old GitHub issue) that there should be an actual UI for that rather than having to mess with manually editing the URL.

That is, https://pluralstories.dreamwidth.org/?tag=1%2B:relationships:romantic,1%2B:creator+speaks+from+experience,price:free does an OR on the tag list while https://pluralstories.dreamwidth.org/?tag=1%2B:relationships:romantic,1%2B:creator+speaks+from+experience,price:free&mode=and does an AND on the tag list.

[lb_lee]

Sneak: Thank you so much, Daniel! Now that I know it's possible and how to make the URL work, I'm working on commissioning a friend of mine to do a fill-out-able form so people could click which tags they want to cross-reference by rather than kludge together the URL in the address bar.

I never would've found that thing by myself. ^_^;