The original and current versions of Vortices, have an only slightly more flexible category system than Reddit. On Reddit, you have to explicitly create a category, whereas Vortices had ad hoc categories with an option to explicitly create one. But this isn't quite what I had in mind. I want tagging, as Flickr and Delicious have, loose groupings that emerge naturally.
So, I built a tagging library that does exactly it. Then I built an example app to test it out. Surprisingly, it worked after I changed a few typos. What took the most time was all of the initial rewrites. I was having a hard time structuring it because I wanted to track who was doing the tagging and how many times an item was tagged with something, but in the end I decided it was too much effort as well as an impact on performance.
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