Better search (Extension of the roadmap)
Currently, searches use OR logic on all of your search terms. The more terms you type, the less narrow your search gets.
A more sensible default would be for it to use AND: Requiring all terms to "match" in any displayed results.
Second, at present, the way search terms are matched is super limited. Searches only match terms from the start of words. The minecraft mod NotEnoughScaffold cannot be found with a search for Scaffold. The mod B.A.S.E. is to the best of my ability to tell, completely unsearchable.
Searches being able to match the inside of a word, and not just the start, would be great.
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Team Overwolf
- Jul 1 2020
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Aug 5, 2020
Admin response
We're planning to expand the search feature as part of our Ux/Ui changes.
Searching for a string within the mod is something we hope to release close to the handover, and later we will look into other search capabilities and options.
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Related ideas
I just realized that the original posters concept of what AND does is the same definition they gave for OR. They are rightly confused. I do hope that you guys figured it out, I wouldn't want OW implementing a bad search algorithm.
OR logic would expand the search results
AND logic narrows the search results
You should also implement pattern matching or substring matching, this is all probably esoteric in the requesting.
Perhaps just implement regex with an expandable box that allows us to manually type in fields for the search that will populate the regex.
or just implement google search engine.
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