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Confusing behavior of tags shared between categories
Over on Software, Q&A and Code Review share the same tags. While this is really helpful since it makes tag parity easy, it also produces some weird behavior. For instance, at the moment the site claims there are 21 posts tagged [google-sheets]... in the Code Review category, despite there being none there (those 21 posts are in the Q&A category, but since tag metadata become shared, it counts them). Clicking on it gives this page listing the posts tagged [google-sheets], again all of which are from the Q&A category, yet it still prominently shows that the page is in the Code Reviews category.
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We improved this a while ago but the bug didn't get closed so I didn't come update here, sorry.
The counts are still totals across all relevant categories, because filtering for the current category would be too hard. We changed the text at the top from "tags for $category" to "tags used in $category", and later we added the "badges" (labels) in the post listings for individual tags, so you can see at a glance which category a post is in. For a shared tag set, we hope that seeing, for example, both "Q&A" and "Code Reviews" will communicate that the count applies to everything.
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