Iirc there was a way to set tag weight somewhere, but I can't find a way to do that now. How I can do that?
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It's in dev.to/dashboard/following :-)
Thanks.
Somewhat related, but is there a way to exclude tags? Topics I never want to see?
AFAIK, no. You can follow a tag and set its weight to -999 for example, but that will just put the tag to the end of your feed.
I filed a request for this, though.