I appreciate the attention, but this is still
- unexpected behavior — a vastly different set of (or no) results for the same word root for which there is content.
- the cross browser inconsistencies are quite odd, no??
Our end-users don’t know what stemming is, which as you point out is a technical research term.
With the post-title change, other discourse-deployers experiencing similar issues wont be able to locate it when searching the forum, and with this no longer being a bug report no one with potential to help improve the behavior will see it as something that may benefit from addressing.