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TL;DR
Add a "Add Pin" button next to "Add tag" and "Add ping" buttons in remote view.

What?
Pins aren't intuitive to discover, and it would be nice if their existence was more visible since they are a really nice addition. It would also help show the hotkey for adding pins, like the hotkey for "Add tag" and "Add ping" when hovering over them.

Why?
Some people didn't know about pins. And even when I knew about them in the FFF, I couldn't figure out the hotkey for it because there wasn't a button for it for me to hover my mouse over to see it, unlike the map tag and map ping functions.

I’d like to have this. I had trouble discovering there was any way to create custom pins.

Also, there could be a pin button in the “Tag properties” dialog, so you can add a pin for a tag without the key combination.

Also, something in “Tips and tricks” for tags, introducing the idea that the control for it exists and it isn’t just something you can use from the alerts and map search.

+1

Also, because this thread is currently the top result in Google for "Factorio add pin":

• In Factorio 2.0, the default control to add a pin for any entity or position is Alt + Right-click

Shortcut keys for selecting pins would be very useful too. Navigating around remote view is a bit cumbersome.