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Tags using Pipes /

1pomonomo2003
Edited: Sep 2, 2021, 7:54 am

I was informed that these '/' are called slashes.

I just made the tag Deconstruction / Literature the other day. Clicking on it takes me to my home page. I have been using slashes '/' for years in my tags. Now none of them seem to work. The tags below are all the tags I have made using / before. They all worked fine when I made them. Are all of them obsolete? Note that all these tags below still appear in My Library if I select tags instead of list. But now they lead nowhere. Some of the tags below are years old, a few made only this year.

Alternate (or Pseudo) History? / Alternate (or Pseudo) Science?
Attributes / Names of God
Anti-Postmodernism/Poststructuralism
Averroes / Averroism and Aquinas
Cognitive Science - Philosophy of Mind - Psychology / Anthropology
Comparative Culture / Thought
Dialectical Thought: Hegel / Marx & Beyond
Dutch Republic / Empire
Etnos/Ethnic Theory in the USSR and Russia
Existential Politics / Sociology on the Right: Examples - Explications - Criticisms
Fairy Tale / Folklore
Great Depression / New Deal Era
Gunpowder / Gun Power in History
Hegel and Marx/ism
History of Modern Commerce / International Trade
Jacobinism: Outside France and After/Beyond the French Revolution
Male Dominance / Violence
Merleau-Ponty and Marx/ism
Military Science/Theory
Modern Origins: Theory (Philosophical / Political / Theological)
Necessity / Possibility / Utility of Religion from Philosophical / Secular Viewpoints
Nietzsche and/vs. Wagner
Political / Juridical Authority
Qur'anic Studies / Textual Criticism / Translations
Thanatology / Thanatogeny

Are there any plans to fix this?

Edited to change the term pipes to slashes.

2Nicole_VanK
Edited: Sep 2, 2021, 7:52 am

That's not a pipe (|), that's a slash (/). All I can say beyond that fact is that I have been using actual pipes instead of slashes for years now, because the latter kept giving problems. So I gave up on using them.

3Nicole_VanK
Sep 2, 2021, 7:48 am

Having said that, of course this should be fixed.

4pomonomo2003
Sep 2, 2021, 7:54 am

Sorry, I am not computer literate. It is the slashes that I am having trouble with.

5kristilabrie
Edited: Sep 2, 2021, 8:14 am

Confirmed on www, clicking on the "Necessity / Possibility / Utility of Religion from Philosophical / Secular Viewpoints" tag in the OP's Tag's sub-page on "Your books".

Clicking on the Tag in "Your books" directly (for a record) changes the URL to https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?tag=Necessity+%252F+Possibility+%252F+U..., with a "No books found." error message.

Note to devs: on athena, clicking on the tag in the Tags sub-page, the URL changes to catalog/pomonomo2003&tag=Necessity+%2F+Possibility+%2F+Utility+of+Religion+from+Philosophical+%2F+Secular+Viewpoints with a 404 error.

Confirmed this with a test in my own catalog as well.

6Nicole_VanK
Edited: Sep 2, 2021, 9:13 am

>4 pomonomo2003: No problem - just someone who (also) studied typography trying to make things a bit more clear for staff, in hopes they can fix this

7AbigailAdams26
Edited: Sep 2, 2021, 11:29 am

Tags with ampersands (&) and + signs have also had this trouble. See this bug report: https://www.librarything.com/topic/334172

8kristilabrie
Sep 23, 2021, 9:51 am

I'm closing this thread to keep all Tag bugs like this to the one noted above in >7 AbigailAdams26:. Will refer to this thread there.