We have now been running our discourse installation for over four years. During that time a lot of cool stuff and good memories were born, including a nickname or two, in-jokes and partially a lingo of our own. Four years is quite a long time, so it’s inevitable that at some point we’ve set off on …

[image] tonninseteli: you simply can’t search deleted posts I thought you could in advanced search @sam ? Not sure though. [image] tonninseteli: trying to find the first occurrence of something seems to fail miserably every time I try it Selecting order by latest isn’t working for you?…

[image] codinghorror: I thought you could in advanced search The problem is that this kind of search can be used only from the staff members, all the other users will see at least no result. For now we can search between deleted topics appending /latest?status=deleted to the site URL. I would…

I am not sure we keep deleted posts in the search index, should we even? This means we are bloating all this index for data that is not searched. in:deleted is a trivial 5 minute change if @tgxworld wants to take it, just not sure how deleted topics and posts interact with the index. Also not 100% …

“order by oldest” is probably the most easily actionable request here but it is .. odd.

Sorry not to have checked up on this but things have been a bit turbulent as I’m sure we all can agree. [image] codinghorror: “order by oldest” is probably the most easily actionable request here but it is … odd. It does sound strange at first, but there’s really nothing that odd about it …

I’m again trying to find the first occurrence of a particular word but I know for a fact that when sorting by latest post the last post displayed is not the first occurrence of the word in the forum :thinking: Could this be due to the original topic where the term occurs has been bumped or there is…

Is this something you’d need the users to have as part of the actual search, or would using the Data-Explorer be an option?

I will definitely take a look at this plugin, since this is such a special case. Discourse’s builtin search is scary good for 99,9% of cases but this one’s a little bit tricky.

Some issues with searching (sorting, searching deleted posts and such)

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) March 21, 2019, 10:45am 2

I thought you could in advanced search @sam? Not sure though.

Selecting order by latest isn’t working for you? Oh wait you want the oldest item not the newest one. That’s a bit weirder.

Seems to work OK for me? money before:2013-03-20

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Some issues with searching (sorting, searching deleted posts and such)

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