RCS - Pleace Fix The Search Finally
Some time ago
Jason van Gumster
post link to GitHub bug reports/ideas for RCS but I can't find it now.
What a question of bureaucracy - everyone know that search doesn't work correct and how much time it have to work this way before someone do something?
Even right now I want to find post for outliner about Show Only to write about in on Devtalks, but I can't bacause it was some time ago .... I remember that it exist but I have to sit and leaf through hundreds of posts to find one I even don't exactly remembet it title. And all because after last RCS interface update search completely broken and no one still fixed it. What an annoing thing.
How many duplicates was rejected during last time because people can't find something already posted. It work now just because some people check RCS for long time and remember that something similar been already posted.
JUST FIX IT, DAMN IT!
Additional request in case if someone go fix search. Right clicking on loupe icon do nothing. Search work only if pressed
Enter
. Please make it work for mouse cursor too.
As always - thanks for reading. Also you can check my other suggestions .
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We've fixed this issue .
Previously we were using a paid service for search, it was not only fast but also smart, so it was pretty reliable.
With 2.8, RCS, GraphicAll, Blender.Today , etc, blender.community got quite popular and the expenses went up (three digits $$$), so we had to shut it down and quickly implement our own search which at the moment only looks in post titles and not-so smartly.
We are doing this on our free time and can't afford time to make our own search nor money to cover the expenses. We want to stay away from advertisement on blender.community . Maybe a donation-based or Patreon kind of thing would work for volunteers to chip in monthly like BlenderNation has, we could bring back the old search plus pay for the bandwidth/domains/server.
Who would be up for that?
* @Pablo Vazquez * If it need to subscribe for few $ to let it stay alive so I would be one the first subscribers. Create some Patreon or something else, make some youtube announce ( maybe even in Blender Today) for all who interested. But current problem not about fast search only titles or deep search, etc. ....
It just show first 15 results according to search word and if user click
Load More Posts- it load just some posts, some " New " sorted posts or " Hot " sorted posts but not a posts about what user searching for. To catch this crap it no need a team of testers it just need to try to search something what gives not few search results.Ideas for improving RCS should be posted here using the Meta tag. Bug reports (like this one) should probably be posted on the Dillo issue tracker
* @Jason van Gumster * Ok. Bureaucracy. Go to the office number 132 and fill out the form number 547... Otherwise nobody will do it.
So what should I do - remove this post and go to office 132 fill form 547? Or leave it here and duplicate on Git? How much time it takes after I post it on Git before someone see it and start working on it?
* @forestgumpovu4 * It's fine to keep it here, but it's easier to track bugs on GitHub, so I'd suggest reporting it there. Feel free to link to this post for reference.
As for how long it takes, I can't say. Pretty much everyone working on this site (and it's backend, Dillo) is doing it for free in their free time. I'm sure they'd welcome any help.
* @Jason van Gumster * It we talk about Git here - I suspect most of users here have no idea where to go with bug reports and ideas. Maybe it would be better to add small Git icon to interface?
* @forestgumpovu4 * Probably worth another Meta post ;)