Add support for hashtags

[alimony]

Maybe I’m stating the obvious, but general support for hashtags would be really nice. Even in its simplest form (allow search for them + turn them into links in posts) it would be very valuable.

[Luke717]

I agree, hashtag support would be very useful precisely for the reasons you point out. Support wouldn't have to be as detailed or as complex as it is on, say, Twitter, just the simplest functionality mentioned to start with. It really would be a valuable feature.

[sirshannon]

I added this to the iOS client I'm working on because I "need" clickable hashtags. I did it the quickest and easiest way: when displaying posts, I use regex to find hashtags in the text and create facets that link to the search page and perform a search.
Bluesky search ignores the octothorp so I had planned to filter out search results that matched "searchterm" but not "#searchterm". After using it for a few minutes, I realized that's unnecessary. The biggest value-add is simply the hashtag facet + search, the filtering isn't required.

[Edit to say: I'm just adding this comment to as a +1 to the feature but also to say that, as a user, the relatively easy, minimal implementation I tried is enough to satisfy me (for now) as verified by daily usage and a test audience of 1 person.]

[muchmich]

I would like to suggest hashtags being "outside" of the post, more similar to tumblr's tagging system.
Something like this:


and clicking a tag wont show things that werent specifically tagged as such ie if you click the tag '#cat' you will only see posts tagged with the '#cat' and not posts that contain the word cat without it being tagged

[simonetthomas]

Out of curiosity : when it's implemented, will all the "hashtags" in existing posts turned into real clickable hashags ? Or would this only affect new posts ?

[Sininini]

I would prefer if all the existing "hashtags" got turned into real ones. People are already using them and it would be nice to not have to repost art and stuff just to redo the hashtags.

[danorton]

The ability to “follow” hashtags would also be helpful.