Introducing Tags: Increasing connectivity between ideas
Everyone’s stories and ideas… organized
Since the beginning, Medium has been a place for people to share stories and ideas with one another. A community where people can find an audience for their thoughts, no matter how big or small, and engage in meaningful dialogue with one another. The introduction of Responses late last year allowed you to respond to a story that inspired, provoked, or engaged you. However, we wanted to take it a step further and create spaces on Medium where all stories on a specific topic could be organized together in one central place. From there, those interested in that topic could consume those stories all at once, and potentially even be inspired to share their own. Our belief is that when brought together, good ideas have the power to fuse, recombine, and spark even greater ideas.
That vision — increasing connectivity among everyone’s ideas — is the inspiration behind a new feature we’re shipping today: Tags.
For each story you publish or have already published, you’ll now be able to choose up to three tags. Upon publication, your story will be distributed on the relevant tag pages, where it will live on Medium with other stories that share the same tag. In this way, tags will help your story find its right audience.
More broadly, tags will improve the Medium experience by providing more paths to browse and discover new stories about the things you care about most, whether it’s Memories or Photography . On the homepage, we’ll frequently be rotating trending tags into the new Featured Tags section, which will highlight timely, relevant stories on Medium. We hope that tags will lead you to find stories you wouldn’t have otherwise discovered. Perhaps you’ll even be inspired to share your own story or ideas with the Medium community.
As always, we’d love to hear from you and know what you think. Respond to this post below, or get in touch. For more on tags, plus the new in-line editor and stream, thank u