On the whole, I really like the search engine. But one small bug you may want to fix is that occasionally the wrong results appear under ‘Users’. For example, if you type ‘Will MacAskill’, the three results that show up are posts where the name ‘Will MacAskill’ appears in the title, rather than the user Will MacAskill.
EDIT: Mmh, this appears to happen because a trackback to Luke Muehlhauser’s post, ‘Will MacAskill on Normative Uncertainty’, is being categorized as the name of a user. So, not a bug with the search engine as such, but still something that the EA Forum tech team may want to fix.
Oh the joys of a long legacy of weird code. I’ve deleted those accounts, although I’m sad to report that our search engine is not smart enough to figure out that “Will MacAskill” should return “William_MacAskill”
Yeah, you can add lots of additional fields. It also has like 100 options for changing the algorithm (including things like changing the importance of spelling errors in search, and its eagerness to correct them), so playing around with that might make sense.
On the whole, I really like the search engine. But one small bug you may want to fix is that occasionally the wrong results appear under ‘Users’. For example, if you type ‘Will MacAskill’, the three results that show up are posts where the name ‘Will MacAskill’ appears in the title, rather than the user Will MacAskill.
EDIT: Mmh, this appears to happen because a trackback to Luke Muehlhauser’s post, ‘Will MacAskill on Normative Uncertainty’, is being categorized as the name of a user. So, not a bug with the search engine as such, but still something that the EA Forum tech team may want to fix.
Oh the joys of a long legacy of weird code. I’ve deleted those accounts, although I’m sad to report that our search engine is not smart enough to figure out that “Will MacAskill” should return “William_MacAskill”
Is there a way to give Algolia additional information from the user’s profile so that it can fuzzy search it?
We could probably add a nickname field that we set manually.
Yeah, you can add lots of additional fields. It also has like 100 options for changing the algorithm (including things like changing the importance of spelling errors in search, and its eagerness to correct them), so playing around with that might make sense.