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More prominent search field

By Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer
    2021-10-18 15:03:21.642Z

    I would absolutely love it if there was an option to make search in the forum a more prominent feature.

    See our Help Center here for an example:
    https://help.soundflow.org/

    Essentially, I'd love it if there was a search bar in the top of the category list and of topic lists that didn't require a click to reveal a popup, but rather was always visible.

    Our forum now has 5,000 pages so it would make sense to make it easier for users to find existing content. I believe a prominent search feature would be key to fix that.
    Ideally, it should be a fairly trivial fix - potentially it can be a flag in the UI settings so others can keep the feature as it is today.

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    1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-10-19 11:33:00.229Z

      Maybe this can indeed be a quick fix (or somewhat quick). I can have a look

      I think it's a good thing to have and could be nice to enable here at Ty .io too I suspect.

      Nice looking example, thanks for the link.

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      1. In reply tochrscheuer⬆:
        KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-10-28 07:03:12.171Z

        (Sorry for the delay. I've been improving session management in Talkyard. Now that's mostly done, still need to code review (not yet deployed), and some other things)

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          KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-11-20 03:36:14.894Z

          Now started working with this — will be fixed at the end of next week (unless something unplanned comes up in between).

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            KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-12-01 16:30:54.511Z

            Now this has been implemented. Will upgrade Prod soon or tomorrow

            (You'll see a search field, on the forum homepage here: /forum/ )

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            1. CChristian Scheuer @chrscheuer
                2021-12-02 12:07:13.424Z

                Wohoo!!
                Just came here to say, great work :)

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                1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-12-02 20:40:08.522Z

                  Ok :- )   I wonder if the search box by default should search only in any category selected below (rather than in the whole forum), if one has selected a category below.

                  Maybe, if one was in a specific category, there could be a checkbox below the search query field: [x] Search only in the current category, i.e. The Current Cat Name
                  — then, one would/could understand how it worked, and un-tick, to search everywhere.

                  (But if no category had been selected, the checkbox wouldn't appear)

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                  1. CChristian Scheuer @chrscheuer
                      2021-12-05 23:12:01.992Z

                      That sounds like a great idea!

                      And ofc. once tags become more full-featured, the ability to add tags to one's search would be very cool too.

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