Discourse needs better search

There I fixed it … at #1 now.

I discussed this issue with @tgxworld and @JammyDodger in the past, we baked ourselves a very bad cake here.

The simple workaround is

Going through every single plugin topic and appending “Plugin” at the end.

Discourse Advertising Plugin
Discourse Chat Plugin
and so on…

Title matches “win” so for example

  • Advertising in category plugin will lose to Discourse Advertising Plugin question in category random.

We could “bloat” our title index by appending category and tags - I think this is what google do anyway.

So instead of indexing:

first priority “Discourse Advertising”
second “plugin”
third priority “content”

We could index

first priority “Discourse Advertising - plugin tag1 tag2”

Of course a workaround is searching for:

#plugin chat

vs


FWIW … might as well go and fix up all the official plugins now, will only take me a few mins.

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