Starting this afternoon, our search function has changed in some way. forum We have several titles that we add to frequently and so we use the search quite heavily. Until this afternoon, when we searched for a title and then clicked on it, it would take us to the first post of the thread. Now it’…

[image] Slowhand: Definitely not somewhere in the middle of the thread. Two things may be happening: Discourse tracks read status, taking the user back to where they were in the thread. Search results are finding a specific reply to be more relevant, linking directly I’m not sure of a sett…

[image] maiki: Discourse tracks read status, taking the user back to where they were in the thread. I was in these threads yesterday and was posting at the end. Have been through them all several times front to back. I guess I don’t understand this since almost 90% of the posts have the se…

We have done some internal tuning to our search engine, @tgxworld will follow up here.

[image] maiki: Search results are finding a specific reply to be more relevant, linking directly So what @maiki said here is correct and is actually the behavior that we want when search results are ordered by relevance. However, we had a bug in our code previously where we would only show ei…

@Slowhand There was indeed a bug where we were not showing the actual post with the highest rank. Searching for Black clover will take you to https://forums.theanimenetwork.com/t/black-clover/10507/98 while searching for Dragon ball will take you to https://forums.theanimenetwork.com/t/dragon-ball-…

Thank you for looking into this. My belief is that if what I’m searching for is the actual title of the thread, then it should take me to the first post; not some post that the system thinks is “relevant”. What the system believes is relevant probably has little to do with how we actually use our fo…

[image] Slowhand: what I’m searching for is the actual title Do you know of the in:title operator? This will certainly always take you to post #1.

[image] sam: Do you know of the in:title operator? No, I do not. (need 20 characters, so filler)

Give it a shot, it is super useful [image]

I used it and while I only get one search result, when I click on the thread, it still takes me to a random point in the thread. Searched “Black Clover in:title” and it took me to Post 103 of 463.

Title search not working as expected

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Slowhand (Slowhand) July 16, 2020, 1:28am 16

Thanks so much!
And I really appreciate the tip for in:title searching, I’ll definitely be using this from now on.

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Title search not working as expected

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