908303 - Allow # symbol to have same effect as no # symbol when tagging in Popcorn and Thimble

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 902043

(Webmaker Graveyard :: MakeAPI, defect)

Description

[Jacob [:Jacob]]

The # symbol is a social convention that we are going to adopt in the front end UI for webmaker.org

You can see the beginning stages of it on the Starter makes page - https://webmaker.etherpad.mozilla.org/starter-makes

See how those tags show up with a # symbol, i.e. #comicmake

We need to make sure that when somebody tags something Popcorn Maker or Thimble with a hashtag, it removes the hashtag in the MakeAPI and treats it like a normal tag as if they didn't input the # symbol.

And inversely, we need to make sure that when somebody tags something in Popcorn Maker or Thimble without a hashtag, that it shows up on the front end with a hashtag

People will be inputting tags both ways, and we need to treat them as equivalent.

Comment 1

[Kat Braybrooke [:codekat]]

Talking about this with Jacob, Kate, I mentioned that you and I had discussed this at workweek - is there an easy wraparound to ensure that #hashtags are converted to 'hashtags' without the # in the makeAPI backend?

Comment 2

[Jacob [:Jacob]]

we tested this today and basically if you tag something with a hashtag i.e. #motionpicture - it won't show up in search, even if you type in the exact word #motionpicture

however, if you tag something without a hashtag, i.e. motionpicture - it will show up in search if you type in #motionpicture or motionpicture

Comment 3

[Chris DeCairos (:cade)]

It's not that it's not showing up, it's the fact that we strip the # out of tag search terms. 

This is a dupe of Bug 902043