[Long Term] New Channel Types

(#929) Feature Under consideration channels

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Comment by @Antonio225t
RexSystem 1 vote originally by @Antonio225t on GitHub 1 reply
I wrote this because I thought that forum channels were going to be just like in other social networks but I'm going to put it here just in case it's useful. Right now, on some platforms, when people create a forum channel they have the ability to add tags in their forum channel, allowing people to have a fast way of searching threads, however sometimes tags aren't enough and using too many tags can lead to an uncategorized mess (and people scrolling forever to search for a specific tag).

Proposed solution

I propose Subtags. What I mean is basically a way for tags to be categorized. People can have normal tags (the ones that most forum platform implements) and tags that can have more tags inside of them. For example a forum channel for software releases can benefit from Subtags like this:
Without Subtags: Supports: Windows, Supports: MacOS, Supports: Linux, Type: Utility, Type: Fun (5 tags in total) With Subtags: Supports: [Windows, MacOS, Linux], Type: [Utility, Fun] (Only 2 tags where the first one has 3 Subtags and the second one has 2 Subtags)
Subtags will help community owners to categorize tags for easier access and less uncategorized mess.
Comment by @coldreindeer
RexSystem 1 vote originally by @coldreindeer on GitHub
How would selecting the subtag work in practical use?