Interesting… I was searching for an old thread on the CH board and came across a thread about issues with the site. This was one of the posts on the thread, from a CH employee! (emphasis mine)
patsully about 21 hours ago
Hi jen,
We very much prefer more specific location tags, both to make the site easier to navigate and to enable new features like maps, which we’re starting to roll out to discussions in Restaurants & Bars with location tags in the US & Canada: http://www.chowhound.com/post/maps-pr…
While having large regional boards allowed you to just check in on new posts for “Europe” or even “Southeast,” it is very confusing for new users who have to dig deep to find any activity from a specific country, state, or city of interest. We’ve kept these legacy locations around as optional tags to make sure to get eyes on new posts, but long term we want to encourage everyone to use multiple, specific location tags whenever possible.
> Otherwise, you end up in a situation where Washington DC is somehow grouped together with the Caribbean…
Finally a reminder that your homepage feed will display a de-duped set of discussions from all of the tags you follow. You can explore the full set of location tags here: http://www.chowhound.com/browse/locat…
Give a shout with any questions!
