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Is there a way to add expiration for questions tags?

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Comments from this question reveal that there is some aggressive caching related to question tags (what tags are used for a question).

Unfortunately, after changing tags for several questions I have realized that glitches are quite often. Example for [formula] tag:

  • search indicates 6 usages of the tag
  • posts tagged with formula indicate a list of 3 usages
  • trying to edit any of the questions from the previous point indicate that [formula] is no longer used for the post

Not sure about the effort, but one quick way to deal with this would be adding an expiration for the cache. Is this possible?

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posted about 4 years ago
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Lundin‭ wrote about 4 years ago
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On SE, unusued tags deleted themselves fairly quick, I think within 24 hours?

Alexei‭ wrote about 4 years ago
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@Lundin Automatic removal would be really nice, but current caching makes things really confusing as shown in my example.

Moshi‭ wrote about 4 years ago
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I feel like it'd be better to post this in the developer chat or on the GitHub repo, since it's not related to the Software community but rather to the Codidact software. It'd get better visibility from the devs and a better framework (i.e. not using Q&A) to discuss this possibility.

Alexei‭ wrote about 4 years ago
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@Moshi That's a good idea. I will raise an issue @ GitHub repo. Thanks.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 4 years ago
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It's fine to report issues on community metas; we don't want to require people to go sign up for GitHub or Discord just to be able to communicate with us. Granted, on Software Dev the odds are decent that people are already on GH. If Alexei doesn't file a GH issue then one of us will do it in one of our sweeps.

Alexei‭ wrote about 4 years ago
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I have reported the issue on GitHub (thanks Monica for moving it to the right place, now I know that qpixel is the actual project :) ): https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/268