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    • Jim DaileyJ Offline
      Jim Dailey
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      I tried to search posts for a simple text pattern, langs, and I got many many results. But when I open many of the resulting hits and tried to locate the “langs” text, I could not (it does not appear anywhere in the posts).

      Any idea why posts show in the results that do not meet the search criterion?

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      • Claudia FrankC Offline
        Claudia Frank @Jim Dailey
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        @Jim-Dailey
        Hello Jim,

        to be honest I don’t understand how it works at all
        and to be even more honest, I use duckduckgo/google etc…
        limiting search to the community web site address and do searches.

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • cipher-1024C Offline
          cipher-1024
          last edited by

          I’d also add that the NodeBB site has a lot of reports about broken searches, but since we don’t know what search plugin this site uses, it’s hard to tell what’s going on. But I would agree with Jim, the site search is very broken. Searching “langs” in the title only, you get things like “links” or “long”. I’ll take a page from Claudia’s book and use a search engine, but that won’t help with random people coming here to search for issues and then promptly giving up and putting in duplicate posts.

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