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Edit (Feb. 25th, 2014):

The meta.SO link in Jeremy's answer has been updated to say that the tag thingie is not coming back.

Therefore I officially change this to a feature request.

Is it possible to bring back the functionality of the "tag thingie" and have an accessible place on the page (even as a tooltip, although that is less favorable), where we can see how many questions are tagged with each of the used tags?

When opening a question, there used to be on the right part of the screen, a list of the used tags and their sizes. You can still see this on meta, but not on the main site.

I found this information to be incredibly helpful for several reasons:

  1. It allowed me to see if a new tag was created.

  2. It allowed me to see if the current tags are all popular, and to decide whether or not a retag is needed.

    For example, asking a question about ordered fields and using just the tag is probably gonna reduce the exposure of the question, and might be a reasonable addition; on the other hand won't be needing to increase the exposure of the question.

Please bring it back!

Possibly a bug?

It seems to show up on Chromium. But not on Firefox (27.0, Arch Linux 64bit; confirmed by robjohn in the comments 26.0, Mac). This is across the entire SE network, the "tagged" element shows up on meta sites but not on main sites.

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    $\begingroup$ You mean this? $\endgroup$
    – user642796
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:27
  • $\begingroup$ @ArthurFischer: I don't see that at the top of my main question pages. $\endgroup$
    – robjohn Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:31
  • $\begingroup$ @Arthur: Yes. That thing. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:34
  • $\begingroup$ @rob: Good thing that I'm not alone here. What browser are you using? $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:34
  • $\begingroup$ @AsafKaragila: Firefox 26.0 for Mac $\endgroup$
    – robjohn Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:34
  • $\begingroup$ @robjohn: Okay then, it's not a bug from updating FF to 27.0. :-) $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:35
  • $\begingroup$ @Arthur: Inspecting the HTML elements shows that this doesn't even appear on the code of the main site. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:37
  • $\begingroup$ I'm seeing the tags on Chrome (32.0.1700.107 m for Win7) but not Firefox (26.0 for Win7). ....and after updating Firefox to 27.0 I'm seeing the tags there, too. $\endgroup$
    – user642796
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:38
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    $\begingroup$ @robjohn: But seems a bug nonetheless! $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:39
  • $\begingroup$ @AsafKaragila: I don't know if this is the problem, but I see this in the page source: "question_show_tweaks":{"v":"sidebar_wo_tag_stats","g":2} $\endgroup$
    – robjohn Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 21:54
  • $\begingroup$ @AsafKaragila: the mods were discussing in chat that some saw "question_show_tweaks":{"v":"sidebar_wo_tag_stats","g":1} and we figured there might be some testing with two random groups. $\endgroup$
    – robjohn Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 22:42

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This is currently being discussed over on MSO:

Tags are not showing up on the right side of the screen

Basically, we're just testing.

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    $\begingroup$ Thank you for letting me know. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 6, 2014 at 22:20
  • $\begingroup$ Are you done testing? $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 7, 2014 at 19:50
  • $\begingroup$ Not yet... Maybe Monday or Tuesday $\endgroup$
    – Jeremy T
    Feb 7, 2014 at 19:53
  • $\begingroup$ Because it's back now. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 7, 2014 at 19:54
  • $\begingroup$ It's split on IP plus user agent...you upgrade your browser? $\endgroup$
    – Jeremy T
    Feb 7, 2014 at 19:59
  • $\begingroup$ Not since last night. My IP has changed, though. (But this was also true on my Windows 8 tablet from two other IP addresses today on FF 26.) $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 7, 2014 at 20:00
  • $\begingroup$ Well, keep in mind, every time one of those things changes you've got a 50% chance of being in a new group $\endgroup$
    – Jeremy T
    Feb 7, 2014 at 20:02
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    $\begingroup$ Hm. I see. Interesting way of testing. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 7, 2014 at 20:03
  • $\begingroup$ Best we can do, because we need some method that can be calculated on the spot. We don't have the capability to mark someone and track them throughout the system. IP plus user agent hash can be computed anytime we need it $\endgroup$
    – Jeremy T
    Feb 7, 2014 at 20:04
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    $\begingroup$ Well, you can also troll the users. Make the computing non-deterministic, and save the result for two hours so for two hours the user will experience the same test group across the servers; but after two hours recalculate it. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 7, 2014 at 20:30
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    $\begingroup$ @Asaf, don't give them any ideas! $\endgroup$
    – Gerry Myerson
    Feb 8, 2014 at 1:35
  • $\begingroup$ It's Thursday now (Wednesday if you want to be pedantic), shouldn't it be back to normal by now? $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 13, 2014 at 1:27
  • $\begingroup$ It's been like... three weeks now. What's up with that? $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 25, 2014 at 20:38
  • $\begingroup$ @AsafKaragila We ended the experiment today, and I'm afraid we're not going to bring it back. Instead we are going to try to make the other group of tags more prominent and accessible. Also discussed here: meta.stackexchange.com/a/222820/202998 $\endgroup$
    – Jeremy T
    Feb 25, 2014 at 20:42
  • $\begingroup$ Yeah, I just noticed that and edited the main thread to a feature request. :-) $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Feb 25, 2014 at 20:42

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