Add back the ability to seach for users and forums!

Sigton

I used that a lot. It was most helpful, and I'm not sure why it was removed.
But I would like it back please!
People are told to search for existing topics before suggesting, but the can't do that anymore (If this is a duplicate that is why).

Sigton

awesome-llama

Support. A workaround for searching topics, go to web browser search bar, type:
site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]

Last edited by awesome-llama (July 19, 2016 09:08:16)

Sigton

awesome-llama wrote:
Support. A workaround for searching topics, go to web browser search bar, type:
site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]

Topics all have numerical ids, though.

Sigton

24691357

awesome-llama wrote:
Support. A workaround for searching topics, go to web browser search bar, type:
site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]

It's "[searchterm] site:https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss“ in Google not ”site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]" in any search engine.

Sheep_maker

24691357 wrote:
awesome-llama wrote:
Support. A workaround for searching topics, go to web browser search bar, type:
site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]
It's "[searchterm] site:https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss“ in Google not ”site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]" in any search engine.

The placement of the site: stuff and the actual query doesn't matter (why would it, anyone would've coded it so that it'd accept that) and it also works on Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo so it's probably a universal thing

24691357

Sheep_maker wrote:
24691357 wrote:
awesome-llama wrote:
Support. A workaround for searching topics, go to web browser search bar, type:
site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]
It's "[searchterm] site:https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss“ in Google not ”site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]" in any search engine.
The placement of the site: stuff and the actual query doesn't matter (why would it, anyone would've coded it so that it'd accept that) and it also works on Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo so it's probably a universal thing

The reason this works in other search engines is that the search engines search for the words “site, scratch, mit, edu, discuss”. But Google strictly searches in these websites. So it's more accurate.

Sheep_maker

24691357 wrote:
Sheep_maker wrote:
24691357 wrote:
awesome-llama wrote:
Support. A workaround for searching topics, go to web browser search bar, type:
site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]
It's "[searchterm] site:https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss“ in Google not ”site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [searchterm]" in any search engine.
The placement of the site: stuff and the actual query doesn't matter (why would it, anyone would've coded it so that it'd accept that) and it also works on Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo so it's probably a universal thing
The reason this works in other search engines is that the search engines search for the words “site, scratch, mit, edu, discuss”. But Google strictly searches in these websites. So it's more accurate.

Nope; a colon after a single world is a universal sign of search options. If a site has advanced search options, it'd most likely have this format. Searching for stuff in your trash in your email, for example, might put this in your search bar:

in:trash

It's not just Google.

Techno-CAT

Hello

Recently, the ST changed the search feature, which was a welcome new feature.

That was until many of us realised what they removed. Now, Scratchers cannot search for forum topics, profiles or all of them at once. What is the purpose of this? Why remove a working system, only to replace it with a system that is less functional?

Please, support this topic for re-implementation of these features.

Techno-CAT

RIP

DownsGameClub

Support. However, the Scratch team just released it, so it is obvious that they are probably going to work on it later and fix it.

Candylanguagegirl

Support. Searching for usernames and forum topics is often necessary.

Sigton

Candylanguagegirl wrote:
Support. Searching for usernames and forum topics is often necessary.

Especially for suggestions.

Sigton

Sheep_maker

DownsGameClub wrote:
Support. However, the Scratch team just released it, so it is obvious that they are probably going to work on it later and fix it.

It has been 15 days since the search got the redesign, so either there's something different about searching for topics/users or they're adding more big features to search.

SpongyGames

Complete support. When I run into problems when making projects, it has become challenging to search the forums to see if there are any topics with advice.

Last edited by SpongyGames (July 23, 2016 12:30:04)

MathlyCat

If they aren't going to update it I'm all for the old one.

sunspot-p

Someone made a tampermonkey script a little while back to achieve just this. Give me a second to look for it.

Ezlambry

Support! I made a project kinda like that right here in the meantime

Last edited by Ezlambry (July 23, 2016 13:45:19)

ProjectMaker59

No support, please suggest “add forum and users to the new search engine” instead Support! Without that I can't even search for forums and users

Last edited by ProjectMaker59 (Oct. 3, 2016 15:41:40)

Thinking_Upward

Support! I feel like now that we can't search for users or disscusion forums, it's harder to find things. What if you want to follow, say, @Minion108 and you need to find them on Scratch, now what do you do? And what do you do if you need help with a project or something?

LP_Test

+2

Usually, if I support I do +1 but since this is a NECESSITY I will do +2.

sunspot-p

LP_Test wrote:
+2

Usually, if I support I do +1 but since this is a NECESSITY I will do +2.

Please, DON'T COMMENT +1 or SUPPORT on a thread. It adds nothing to the conversation!

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