How to repeat: Go to a hosted Discourse instance, and sign up as a new user. I signed up at internals.rust-lang.org. Follow the “Greetings!” new user on-boarding tutorial from @discobot. Message #15 in the tutorial topic will say: [image]On another topic psst … I’ve hidden a surprise in this topic. If you’re up for the challenge, select the search icon [image] at the top right :arrow_upper_right: to search for it. Try searching for the term “capybara” in this topic Click the search icon, type capybara into the box, and click “capybara in this topic” under the search input box. The result is “No results found.”. I expect two messages to be found (#15, where the text “Try searching for the term “capybara” in this topic” is written, and the earlier message that has the capybara photo). Searching for other terms does work. Searching the topic for “nasty”, for example, returns two posts. The word “capybara” is found “in all topics and posts”. So it can be indexed. I found another report of this problem from May 2017: Search broken in internals forums - meta - Rust Internals So I don’t think it’s a new problem, or unique to my situation. I think this is severity 3; while it only affects a small number of users and is a mere cosmetic issue, it happens to a brand new user and leaves the impression that the search function is unreliable or the site is poorly maintained. Kind regards, Tim

OK, I am very sorry about this. The problem exists between the keyboard and the chair. My current problem is just due to the in the middle of capybara: 319 Try searching for the term "capybara" in this topic I completely missed that zero-width addition. That explains why searching the topic doesn’t find that word currently, and as Simon King explained, message #1 was already reverted so the true capybara is now gone. As for my initial problem, I’m happy to assume that was just me hitting Enter instead of selecting this topic, and leave it at that. In my latest follow-up test I copy-and-pasted the text, so I inadvertently copied the #8203; as well. So, I’m embarrassed but hopefully haven’t wasted too much of your time. Thanks for all the help. Tim

New user tutorial search for "capybara" finds nothing

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Not at all; I forgot we did that.

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New user tutorial search for "capybara" finds nothing

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