I can’t always find what I’m looking for.
I don’t mean I’m looking the wrong way (AFAICT), but I can’t even find some things I’m staring at.
Does “Search” search the meta category?
Searching for the exact words, even whilst staring right at them, search could not find them. I tried without hyphens, and shorter phrase originally (I ended up finding the post another way).
but if you try sometime, you might find, you get what you need
[cue chorus]
Refresh the page properly, the search function will start working again (IMLE).
[Shift]+Mouseclick the ‘Refresh’ button in firefox.
There’s defo a bug, seems to happen to me after searching a bunch of times.
*SAGE
Shouldn’t this be in the Bugs with the new BBS system topic… or in meta.discourse? And should that ‘new’ really be in there? Shouldn’t I have reported this?
Tsk tsk.
“Bugs with the new BBS System” is a huge unweidly mess. I cannot envision multiple bug-conversations going on there at once. Or rather, I cannot envision multiple bug-conversations going on there at once in a readable manner.
posting this at meta.discourse is a thing, if it is a problem with Discourse itself. I strongly suspect that the bug is reproducible at all Discourse sites – nobody is able to find that particular post!
But… it could be for multiple non-bug reasons here at the BBS (meta is not searched, caching, something else, who knows).
Search functionality itself is not broken – I can search for other things. But this particular post, I could not bring up despite searching for the exact (or even inexact) string contained w/in the post.
IME anything underneath the word ‘sage’ can be safely ignored.
I had the same issue. Occasionally a search term identical to published text would highlight all the ‘a’ characters on the page.
Other strange behaviour would also occur but I’m at a loss to remember exactly what.
maybe @jlw has stealth mode? It’s his party.
I got no idea. @codinghorror may.
Try searching for just “like-farming” without the quotes.
I think it’s searching for all those low-value words like “I’m” “in” “it” “for” etc.
This is working for me, now.
That’s actually how I started out searching… only once I found the original quote did I try the whole thing.
Has something been updated in the last couple of hours?
We updated our malware to latest.
Superfish 2.0!
Search terms are finicky – subset of a word is not the same as the word. Eg, “robot” and “robots” give different result sets in Huffing Boing Boing
I would expect that searching for “rob” would be larger set, “robot” would be a subset, and “robots” would be a subset of that.
Instead, they appear to be considered distinctly.
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