The more I think about it, the more I see this needs to be addressed. The more I see it discussed, the more I see this needs it's own topic.
As I said in forum #85329, outside the UI discussion, but related to it, the problem of excessive pools needs to be addressed, not by albert, but by us, the community, and we can start now. This is what I want to discuss.
(For newer members:) Wiki pages like squeezable and related old forum threads show us that these collections pools used to be subjective tags and the community decided they should be moved to pools. I think there were probably far fewer subjective tags then than there are now, but I think it's become clear that this was a mistake.
I think we should, right now, start moving all these collections and non-ordered pools to temporary tags. We put a qualifier on them, like pool_ or collection_ so that when albert and/or jxh has time, they can easily implement a 4th tag type and mass-move the tags. e.g.
- pool #439 -> pool_soul-crushingly_depressing
- pool #1277 -> pool_badass
- pool #2778 -> pool_pixiv_1000
- pool #4512 -> pool_frill_hell
Most of the work here won't be the technical, it'll be finding and deciding what has to be moved and deleted. We might not even need the temporary qualifier, but we do need to gather a list all in one place. We're either going to have an annoying number of pools cluttering the top/bottom of the screen to moderate or an annoying number of tags cluttering up the bottom corner to moderate.
Updated by anon153