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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make a search page Merged
instead of browsing and scrolling and loading page after page, please allow search.if search exists, please put a link on your front page- search modpacks- search individual mods0 Planned
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Option to search mods for your version with the search bar in website Merged
this would be useful if you are creating a modpack as you can see which mods you can use instead of finding mods for all versions even if you are on 1.12.20 Planned
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A way to add more than one filter when searching for new stuff Merged
Would be useful for those who want to find a good modpack with multiple tags that they want the modpack to have. could be added by making the filter select screen bigger and highlighting the chosen filters. Something like the attached image.0 Planned
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Make it possible to search by multiple tags at once Merged
Currently you have to pick one tag to search by. Adventure and RPG OR Skyblock OR Hardcore OR Questing. Making it possible to search by more than one of these would let people find more specific types of modpacks and make finding new things easier...0 Planned
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Updated ModPack Searches Merged
Currently, the filter will allow us to sort by a feature of modpacks, such as quests or exploration, whatever. We can only search one at a time, though. It would be nice to have a search feature update that allows us to search for modpacks that in...0 Planned
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add a search option for spezific mods Merged
so you can search modpacks with a specific mod in it you want to playe.g. "search for modpacks with mekanism in it"1 Planned
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Modpack Mod searching Merged
You can search up mods and it will show results for modpacks that have that mod included in them.0 Planned
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Improve the search bar Merged
First off, selecting sorting order based on stuff about the Project. With mods, it would be cool to sort by how often it's used in modpacks. Second, allowing you to sort for dependants/dependancies of a project, and stuff to find specific sorts of...0 Planned
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Being Able to follow mod authors so you can look at more stuff they've made and it could support them to Merged
No description provided1 Planned
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Modpack/Mod searching more than 1 word :/ Merged
the searching system doesnt allow you to search more than one word so it makes it hard to find specific mods or unpopular ones so instead just let it search the whole name instead of just the first word0 Planned
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New addons Merged
A searchbar feature so I can search a specific mod in my list. A way of sorting specific mods e.g. if they add only mobs they're segmented into a mob category similar to what the website has. A URL button so a friend can download same pack if I do...0 Planned
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search by creators Merged
by searching a creator of a modpack it will show you every modpack he or she made.0 Planned
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more than one Filter option Merged
I want to search with more than one filter option from as an example for minecraft Skyblock and quest search at the same time and not to loock at only one and search there for a modpack.0 Planned
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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 apprecia...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 wh...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
rightnow even 3 filter modpack search is awesome. cant wait when it gets better. thanks <3
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.
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.
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.