Ordering search results by the date you last visited topics

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We just landed a change to search (and filter) that lets you easily find your recently read.

Some of you know about order:latest (shortcut l), which allows you to order by the date the post was created.

The new sort order:read (shortcut r) allows you to order the results based on topics you recently read.

So if you happened to read about a topic about Docker in the past month and need to quickly bring it up, typing docker r in the search field will find it.

Enjoy searching. To learn more about search, see:

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What am I doing wrong?

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You need to press Enter after entering the search term.

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There is a bug on full page search at the moment (missing the order), working on a fix. This may be the reason this is causing confusion.

Will also fix an ancient bug with aliases.

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Ah okay, but there should be a visual indication in the list about how the results are ordered, no? And in general, how do I know that Discourse understood my “r” as a modifier? There should be some visual indication.

What if I forgot what modifiers are valid, are using an invalid one, and there is no way to find out that my letter in the request does not have any special meaning.

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Do you mind opening a new feature request on this … this is the same issue “l” alias had forever. l and r are power user features order:read takes longer to type.

Fixed some edge cases here: