Introducing a preview of Search Voat version 2 (beta): https://searchvoat.co/v2
- Search posts, comments and subverses from the same page.
- Faster search (I hope)
- Search short words (like "Q")
Coming soon:
- Alerts
- Buttons to delete/refresh posts (for when you delete a post on Voat but it still shows up on SV)
Comments, questions, suggestions, objections welcome here please.
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MadWorld ago
:-) You are the best!! It is goddamn amazing!!
When searching for username, as part of the search text, the result sometimes includes comments belonging to the author, when such term does not exist within the comments. It might be a bug. Examples:
Question, how far back in time can the comments be searched?
Thanks!
SearchVoat ago
Yes - by default, searches will include comments/posts by that user and comments/posts that mention them. You can exclude, or include only, posts by that user by clicking the links at the top: https://archive.fo/GNlPs#selection-305.0-327.1
Comments since October 2017 are searchable.
MadWorld ago
That raises another question of consistency. If the username were specified in the "Search text" field, but not specified in the "Posted by user(s)" and "In reply to user(s)" fields, the search result would include comments/posts by that user, where that said user was not mentioned in the comments. So it would list all user comments(20 pages plus date range, if available). But there was only one single page available. Maybe I am missing something...
Searching 'kevdude' by "Posted by user(s)" and "In reply to user(s)" fields also only returned one page[1][2]. Is it because the pagination has not been enabled yet?
SearchVoat ago
That was a bug caused by excluding comments from deleted submissions - if you look at that search again you will now also see comments on deleted submissions and the "next page" button. Thanks for pointing it out.
MadWorld ago
Yay, the next page button is working now! This search feature will be tremendously helpful...