Random-seeming results from settings search

blake · August 22, 2023, 9:02pm

Thanks for bringing this up, @ganncamp. I just published a fix that addresses this very issue.

DEV: Tighten up fuzzy search site setting results (#23176)

committed 01:04AM - 22 Aug 23 UTC

Sometimes the fuzzy search would return too many site setting results making it… hard to find what you are searching for. This change still allows for fuzzy searching but tightens up the criteria for being a fuzzy match. One example is searching for 'cheer', a term associated with a plugin, previously returned ~55 search results. With this change it will return ~13 (Actual numbers depend on how many plugins your instance has). Another example is searching for 'digest'. Previously returned ~37 results and now will return ~14. Follow up to: e63e193a0aa65b26863d9ab0f301a9466b2a87f9 See also: https://meta.discourse.org/t/276013

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Random-seeming results from settings search

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