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Can't wget the rss feed (nice addition) or add to browser

The former may be fun with ampersands in shell commands. Try double quotes around the URL. The latter is a world of pain. What version of what browser are you using?

"What version of what browser are you using?"

Fox3, I'll try it with quotes with wget. I like the idea of personalised RSS feeds.

You might want to ignore singularities. Once-mentioned non-tags currently pollute the cloud.

There's a section in the script to only give the top 100 tags. I commented it out so that you could initially see the full range of curiosities. Long term, there will be a more concise list.

Tags: [tagging] [outliers] [singletons]

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Where are these tags from exactly?

Presumably, it's any text enclosed in [brackets] in a news item or comment. (hence all the numeric tags from code)

Specifically, anything that matches the case-insensitive regex \[[0-9A-Z_\.\-]+\] and there's already a surprising number which provide useful searches.

Tags: [search] [tagging] [regex] [meta]