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
- Planned
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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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Separate Current vs Get New addon searches Merged
I tried to search my existing mods this morning, to find one with a bug, but the search pulled all mods, not just what I had installed. I would love to see an option to search either the Curse mods, or My mods and not just all.0 Planned
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Insights in what exactly is 'Popularity Score' Merged
Currently with Twitch, 'Popularity Score' goes up when you get more popular and goes down when you get less popular. This is more or less what anyone could think of by themselves.But what exactly makes it go up by how much?Nerds like me appreciate...0 Planned
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Better Addon Searches. Merged
Free text search, with regular expressions (and, or, not, "") and the ability to include/exclude addon descriptions and/or titles. Also, please restrict authors from adding tag to all categories. Too many items are being posted in categories in ...1 Planned
Related ideas
honestly i'd love the idea to use refining terms or Regex to search, kinda like google
EG "Scaffold" -fix or something of that nature
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rightnow even 3 filter modpack search is awesome. cant wait when it gets better. thanks <3
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This is why I have resorted to screen scraping in the past. I gathered data so I could pull it into a database and find what I was looking for. I still went back to the CurseForge site to download stuff but the search is so cumbersome right now.
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Yeah it's weird. My addon "Enhanced Raid Frames" when searched exactly in the search box ends up as the #6 result, even though the name match is exact. It definitely makes it tough for people to search for specific addons.
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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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