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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