Should search prioritize recent topics over older topics?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I do think there’s a case to be made that more recent topics should show above older ones, but given that the discussion here is so fragmented, and the underlying/original cause…

@codinghorror

My developer spidey sense says UI is somehow screwing up and “thinks” there are not enough results to trigger SHOW MORE. I strongly suspect an error or logic bug in the SHOW MORE UI codepath. I just don’t know how to trigger it.

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@codinghorror

Oddly enough, the drop-down search was only searching the first post and title. But! And this is a big but!

If you had enough results from that initial search of just first post and title to trigger show more (5+), SHOW MORE would then, and onnnnly then, search all posts.

… is resolved, going to close this. Feel free to re-open a similar topic on order of results appearing now that everything is showing in the initial search the way it should.

Thanks for your patience everyone.