These are great updates, thank you for all your work on them! I’m especially excited about being able to search for posts by chronology. Two notes:
1. I would like to be able to search for a phrase, rather than just one word, using quotation marks like you can on Google. E.g. When I search “united nations” and look by time posted, I get a number of results with just the word “nations” and for “New York City” I get results for “new” and “city.” Being able to search with quotation marks around the full phrase would be very useful.
2. If you do add personalized recommendations to the front page, please only make it a small part of the page and very clear that it is user-specific. I like that I know what other users are generally seeing when they come to the Forum and I’m annoyed by e.g. news sites that show me overly catered results.
We’ve been experimenting with recommendations on post pages first, and may also consider personalized recommendations on the Frontpage.
Searching with quotations is actually supported, and it does give you the desired behavior. The issue is that the snippets of text from posts that we’re highlighting are not properly focusing in on the search term. We’re planning to fix this soon.
Thanks for this feedback, we’ll keep that in mind. We definitely won’t overshadow the main common-to-everyone components of the frontpage.
These are great updates, thank you for all your work on them! I’m especially excited about being able to search for posts by chronology. Two notes:
1. I would like to be able to search for a phrase, rather than just one word, using quotation marks like you can on Google. E.g. When I search “united nations” and look by time posted, I get a number of results with just the word “nations” and for “New York City” I get results for “new” and “city.” Being able to search with quotation marks around the full phrase would be very useful.
2. If you do add personalized recommendations to the front page, please only make it a small part of the page and very clear that it is user-specific. I like that I know what other users are generally seeing when they come to the Forum and I’m annoyed by e.g. news sites that show me overly catered results.
Hey Rocky, thanks for these thoughts
Searching with quotations is actually supported, and it does give you the desired behavior. The issue is that the snippets of text from posts that we’re highlighting are not properly focusing in on the search term. We’re planning to fix this soon.
Thanks for this feedback, we’ll keep that in mind. We definitely won’t overshadow the main common-to-everyone components of the frontpage.