# Forum tags - suggestions **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [March 11, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21 "2026-03-11T20:03:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zchandler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e79b87/32.png) [@zchandler](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/zchandler)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21/1 "2026-03-11T20:03:56Z")
Hi Team! To facilitate searching and discovery, using tags, it will be helpful for us to define terms that we are going to use. For example, we have “water level data” as a tag, so should not have “groundwater level data” also as a tag, or they will end up in 2 separate places. Please add your tag suggestions here as a Reply below. Thanks! You can always make new ones on the fly as you post Topics, but please reuse existing ones so that they accrue value. ---
**Author:** ![fschwer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/fschwer/32/17_2.png) [@fschwer](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/fschwer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 11:47pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21/2 "2026-03-30T23:47:02Z")
Hi, just to get the discussion going I’ll suggest 3 tags related to my research, that I would end up using: - Groundwater monitoring - Seismic Ambient Noise - Distributed Acoustic Sensing ---
**Author:** ![sylviazhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@sylviazhang](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/sylviazhang)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21/3 "2026-04-01T22:10:06Z")
My suggestions: - Subsidence - InSAR Also I would advocate for “groundwater level” as opposed to “water level” simply because surface water level measurements are also a thing. ---
**Author:** ![sylviazhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@sylviazhang](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/sylviazhang)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21/4 "2026-04-01T22:15:45Z")
Is there a character limit on the tag names? Some of the current tags seem chopped off. Example: “community-engaged-re” ---
**Author:** ![rprentice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@rprentice](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/rprentice)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21/5 "2026-04-06T22:01:22Z")
My suggestion for tags are: - Groundwater-surface water interactions - Groundwater dependent ecosystems ---
**Author:** ![zchandler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e79b87/32.png) [@zchandler](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/zchandler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21/6 "2026-04-08T17:44:22Z")
Good catch Sylvia! The default is 20 characters max for tags (but we can make it longer), though there is a design tradeoff: longer that 20 means the site will insert elipses, so on most screens you can’t really read it anyhow. Let’s try both! I will increase the max, and maybe we can come up with terser shorthand for tags? Can we shorten “groundwater” to “GW” ? ---
**Author:** ![zchandler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e79b87/32.png) [@zchandler](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/zchandler)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21/7 "2026-04-16T20:01:42Z")
@sylviazhang These are great because they are descriptive and under 20 characters! Added. 👍