We have re-enabled this experiment here. What has been fixed since it was last enabled:
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Categories in the header are populated correctly, especially when navigating from a topic to another using post links or suggested topics
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Badges styling will show correctly after creating a new topic in a category that was not navigated to before
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Docs plugin preloads categories data, so /docs page is now rendered correctly
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Other bugs that have been discovered through internal review
The only outstanding bug is about the missing search results for certain queries (short queries or queries that contain only stop words).
We wanted to make search more powerful and have extended the full-text search engine to categories, and this is an unwanted side effect. I think we will have to revert the previous search algorithm, but we’re still investigating this.