Invalid FONT for Tag Mirror display

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Invalid FONT for Tag Mirror display

1JoeB1934
Bewerkt: jul 30, 2022, 6:00 pm

I have been working with use of the Tag Mirror capability in a chat with url https://www.librarything.com/topic/343140#n7894492.

I can now see that my somewhat inocuous request to see the number of books in a tag mirror statement has uncovered a significan bug in the display.

According to what I learned in that chat the font usage in the tag mirror is actually driven by an erroneous book count. This means that paying attention to font size and boldness for the mirror display is totally invalid.

Please fix it as, lacking an accurate book count my usage of the mirror is compromised and requires browsing by clicking on a number of names.

2Nevov
jul 30, 2022, 6:18 pm

This might not be a bug, Tim (site founder & developer) has previously referenced the font size in the Tag Mirror being determined by an algorithm, not just purely book count. I posted a bit about this in reply to another topic: https://www.librarything.com/topic/343017#7889335
(Cross-referencing in case it's any assistance to the developers.)

So the numbers you're seeing, might be this algorithm, rather than book count.

3Nevov
jul 30, 2022, 6:20 pm

Link to the Tag Mirror feature for anyone unfamiliar with it:
https://www.librarything.com/stats/MEMBERNAME/tagmirror

4JoeB1934
jul 30, 2022, 9:11 pm

>2 Nevov: I can see the numbers in a Google version modified to display them. In that display I can see several tag names of the same size of font and major difference in quantity of books. for example Literary Mystery (3) actually with 396 books and dark bold font., next is Literature(3) actually with 588 books but smaller and not bold font.

I can see that the numbers with the label are absolutely incorrect, but why is the tru number of books not resulting in the same size and boldness of font.

5kristilabrie
aug 1, 2022, 10:31 am

>1 JoeB1934: Sorry, but not a bug:

1. knerd.knitter already eluded to this (https://www.librarything.com/topic/343140#7893842), but further to what she posted I will say that Tag Mirror numbers aren't on display, nor should they be. We're actually working on removing that data from internal display at some point.
2. Tag Mirrors are not based on their numbers alone, but an algorithm. Here's an old post of timspalding discussing this: https://www.librarything.com/topic/18817#237614

6knerd.knitter
aug 1, 2022, 10:41 am

>1 JoeB1934: What I said was that the counts displayed in those hidden spans are not right, not that the font sizes are not right. The reason no Numbers button is given on that page is because those number do not match the numbers in the popup that you get when clicking on the tag. They are hidden for a reason. I have now made a change so they don't even appear in the html for the page so as not to confuse anyone. At some point we will have to go and dig into why those numbers aren't the same, but there's no reason to believe there is a bug in the calculation of the font sizes, as >2 Nevov: pointed out that it's more than just the number of books that determines the font size.