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Lemmy client: search needs negations
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evenwicht lemmy.sdf.org evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2024-07-01
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I tried to search for communites using the query string 'tea'. Got a flood of shit about steam.

Bug 1: It’s first of all a shame that it’s not smart enough to rank whole-word matches to the top. Communies simply named “tea” have a low rank and some do not even make it to the first page.

Bug 2: We have no word boundary expression. I should be able to search for '\<tea\>' to limit to whole words.

Maybe the devs worry that the modern day population can’t handle that.

Bug 3: Certainly we should at least be able to do 'tea -steam' to nix bad results. That query finds nothing, so apparently it is ANDing the two conditions and also treating the '-steam' literally.

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