Hacker News Reader

Maybe you could use the best of both approaches by presenting the most popular/important/broad tags (e.g. PHP, usability, CPC) as a suggested list while allowing users to add their own, more specific or less popular tags (e.g. drupal, memcached, adsense, appengine).

View on HN

Or (as long as it's performant), an auto-complete as you type so that both "java" and "javascript" show up in the auto-complete's suggestion list when you type "java" in. In the above example, a person would type in 'rails' and see the 'rubyonrails' auto-complete, and (hopefully) choose that instead.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com