Hello all! A year ago, I created a discussion about introducing tags for distinguishing between hosted and self-hosted software, and in an answer I suggested to use "hosted" and "self-hosted", and retire "web-apps".
Unfortunately, this discussion never got other answers or even comments, and IIRC, my answer was a long time at 0/0, so I figured we should do nothing about it until getting other suggestions or more votes. However, this month the tag self-hosted appeared (created by @Tom, I think) and it’s currently added to 3 questions. So I guess now we should come up with a decision :)
I think it’s important to differentiate between two cases:
looking for software to install on a server (= self-hosted)
looking for software installed on a server (= hosted)
Ideally, this difference should be represented in the tags.
(If I understand it correctly, this was also suggested by G...
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I think it’s important to differentiate between two cases:
looking for software to install on a server (= self-hosted)
looking for software installed on a server (= hosted)
Ideally, this difference should be represented in the tags.
(If I understand it correctly, this was also suggested by G...
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