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There's WAY too much fuzziness on what comes up when you do a mod search.
For example, if I search for "decor", I get a ton of results for things with "core", "corpse", "ore", etc. If I'm looking for things to make my builds pretty, I don't want to see a million less and less relevant results for things entirely unrelated.
I can appreciate that others feel differently, which is why I believe it makes more sense to be able to adjust how close of a match something needs to be for it to show up in results.
You could have, say, three levels for it. As another example, again for "decor", you could have exact, fuzzy, and loose. For exact, mods named "Az's deco" or "delightful deco" would show up, but not "decorative plants". The exact term with no variation or where it's part of another word must be present.
For fuzzy, "lighting decoration" or "decomposing zombies" would show up. If the term is part of another word, it would be included.
For loose, it would be what it currently is-- where misspellings or close words would be accepted. So mods with "corporation" or "demo" would show up.
In addition, there could be a box to tick for if you want to look only in the title, or if you want to look through descriptions as well.
Obviously the names and parameters could be altered, but I feel like this is a happy compromise between those who want more flexibility and those who don't want to see random, unrelated stuff clog up their results.
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