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When I search a thread for a word in a campaign thread, even one that I know is in the thread, it says no results.

A wider forum search does appear to be working, but only gives older results.

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I noticed this as well, nothing after mid-November 2020 seems to show up.


I think the issues with search are well beyond what you describe above. I'm trying to quickly find product pages by searching the entire page for things like "Lost Maid" and expecting to find PFS 2-17 Lost Maid of Anactoria and it doesn't show up in the results.

Searching for "Anactoria" does bring you the page in the results, but this speaks to a pretty bad discoverability problem.


And my Homebrew word too! It was hard to find why there is no technology Azata for PFS legals.


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And I have noticed an issue when searching for products. It seems that no search for an individual mini in the Starfinder Planets of Peril set will ever return a mini from that set.


cavernshark wrote:

I think the issues with search are well beyond what you describe above. I'm trying to quickly find product pages by searching the entire page for things like "Lost Maid" and expecting to find PFS 2-17 Lost Maid of Anactoria and it doesn't show up in the results.

Searching for "Anactoria" does bring you the page in the results, but this speaks to a pretty bad discoverability problem.

I just tried to search for some stuff and found the same thing.

I wanted to get to a listing of all the Season 2 PFS(2) scenarios (I wanted to buy some but don't know the names off the top of my head), and it was ... challenging.

I resorted to general Internet search engines (I use DuckDuckGo by default but tried Google at various points just to test whether it was a DDG anomaly) and tried variants of "paizo pathfinder society season 2", and a whole bunch of pages that Paizo really shouldn't want ranked higher than the official paizo.com page are ranked higher (probably deserves it own thread). I ended up going to PathfinderWiki to get the list of Season 2 scenarios, back to the paizo.com site to search for specific scenarios, and still had trouble getting to the product pages despite knowing the exact name of the scenario I was looking for.

Paizo will get my money, but only because I Fry-shut-up-and-take-my-money-ed it.


Watery Soup wrote:

I just tried to search for some stuff and found the same thing.

I wanted to get to a listing of all the Season 2 PFS(2) scenarios (I wanted to buy some but don't know the names off the top of my head), and it was ... challenging.

Does this page not list all the PFS2 Season 2 scenarios?


Cellion wrote:
Watery Soup wrote:

I just tried to search for some stuff and found the same thing.

I wanted to get to a listing of all the Season 2 PFS(2) scenarios (I wanted to buy some but don't know the names off the top of my head), and it was ... challenging.

Does this page not list all the PFS2 Season 2 scenarios?

Sure the direct link takes you there, but finding that link isn't easy and searching for the name of a scenario by partial name not even listing the scenario in the results is pretty bad. Forums I understand but searching for products oughta be the easiest thing the search does.

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Hello, everyone. One of our search nodes had been having issues synchronizing its data, with the result that all searches that happened to use that node ended up with out-of-date results. The issue should now be resolved. I went through this thread and reproduced any searches that were described clearly enough for me to do so, and all seem to return appropriate results now.

Thank you for your patience!


Thanks very much! I was really missing this feature.

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