Search is terrible at its job


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2 people marked this as a favorite.

I was trying to find this post of mine to reference elsewhere.

"Me, I remember some of the words in that post, I remember being really negative about the changes to the spell casting system. I think I even used the word detest although it might've been despise. I also said something about heightening and metamagic."

Search for 'detest' (no posts found at all)
Ah, it must have been... Search for 'despise' (no posts found at all)
Hmm, lets try some less specific terms.
Search for 'heightening' (thread not found)
Search for metamagic (thread not found)
Eesh. Lets go with the least generic search terms I've got.
Search for 'system' (thread not found)
Search for 'changes' (thread not found)

How did I find the post?

I looked in "posts you made that other people favorited." It was the 8th one.


Search hasn't worked well since the site upgrade.


That's an understatement. Search doesn't seem to work at all.

I don't understand why there isn't a furor.

Or maybe I just can't find the dozens of threads panning search, because search isn't working.

(Sorry to be whiny. I still like the site.)

Shadow Lodge

Search is horrible. It was OK, if dicey, but now it's useless.

There seems to be no will to fix it. The tech team is endlessly overwhelmed by the horror that must be this web code and things like this are continuously ignored for other issues.

Our infrastructure is crumbling, and the fixes are slower than the breaks.

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