Forum - [Feature] Search suggestion ("Maybe you meant: ...") improvement

Scrydan

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~Originally posted by Chessax

Requested feature overview description.
Search suggestion ("Maybe you meant: ...") improvement, show suggestions for all tags entered and not only single tags. If it is unfeasible to do this for all tags in a search due to performance issues, at least doing it when there are no results would be a compromise.

Why would it be useful?
Easier to find stuff, especially for new users or "non-power users". E.g. inspired by @Genjar's example of searching for mordecai regular_show (usually) yields no results since mordecai is "disambiguated" and the regular_show character is tagged mordecai_(regular_show). However no suggestion is made which to the uninitiated might be taken as a sign that there are no such posts.

What part(s) of the site page(s) are affected?
Posts/Searching

Comments by others

Knotty Curls: My roommate, a casual user, suggested we add a search/tag edit function that looks like this.

Of course, the end-goal will be a bit more thorough than this.
Some additional features which may be appreciated:

* implicated tags included as subtext below added tags
* if a tag aliases to another tag, include this information in color-coded subtext
* a seperate color-code warning if a tag is invalid
* possibly separate text fields for species, characters, and artists

This is open to discussion.

Updated by TonyCoon over 8 years ago

Chessax

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over 8 years ago

For reference:

Siral Eurgh-xan said:
I'll give that a +1. For PC users, that would be a very good thing to have. However, for mobile, it rarely works as intended (because it both scrolls the screen and tries to scroll the bar), or so in my past experiences. It'd be useful to also make it mobile friendly, the same way our pool bar, and the others whom I can't remember, works; by making it open as a "foreground", and having the interactable screen in the "background".

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Got more features for this, I want this function to be full-fledged to make sure users find what they want no matter what!

I figured since I got lots of ideas and I didn't want to spam the forums, I put everything in this thread, but if that is not preferred I'll re organize them as a few new topics.

Several of these has the potential problem of being "spammy" but if that's a problem, maybe many of these could be a per-user setting?

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Requested feature overview description.
Searching for valid well populated tags, e.g. angel, suggests other tags starting with angel_, i.e. angel_(mlp), angel_kryis, angel_loveridge, ...

Why would it be useful?
Finding disambiguated tags without visiting a wiki is much easier, or tags are simply ambiguous by nature (e.g. species:angel vs character:angel_... or link vs link_(wolf_form) vs link_(rabbit_form)).