Please for the love of god, improve searching.

Discussion in 'BukkitDev Information and Feedback' started by NerdsWBNerds, Jul 24, 2013.

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    NerdsWBNerds

    If you literally type in the name of my plugin 'Easy Warp' my plugin (which is the only plugin with that name with a space) comes up half way down the page. That makes no freaking sense.

    (I'm referring to the http://plugins.bukkit.org/ plugin search)
     
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    DSH105

    Does it?

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    Looks like it's near the top to me. The search function looks for the greatest occurrence of the entered key words in the plugin's description (AFAIK). So having a good description will improve the chance of your plugin being near the top of the list in a search ;). Please correct me if I'm wrong on this.
     
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    SnipsRevival

    NerdsWBNerds Based on the above post by _DSH105_ and my own testing, I am going to have to conclude that you are wrong ;).
     
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    NerdsWBNerds

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    DSH105

    NerdsWBNerds Ah, I will admit that search function does need improvement.
     
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    hatstand

    Well, it gets it half right. There's the EasyWarp at the top, then an EasyWarn... Then it kinda loses it.
     
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    williamhcarlton

    I didn't see another thread on support for plugin search. So this is going here.

    Is there some way I can search for plugins that match my search terms which are not outdated?
     
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    Jade

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    hatstand

    You're aware that's the search he's complaining about, right?
     
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    Jade

    hatstand Technically, nothing is perfect, and I assumed by the image in the post by _DSH105_, it was dev.bukkit.org being hated.
     
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    midnightfang22

    You sure?
     
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    lukegb

    Your latest release file isn't marked as supporting the latest RB version of CraftBukkit.
     
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    afistofirony

    If this is the reason why the search order can be so random...

    that actually makes a surprising amount of sense.
     
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    Gravity

    lukegb is my favorite person
     
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    n31ln3t

    Vouch for this idea, I don't really like the search too much.
     
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    Archarin

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    Bertware

    Levenshtein or some other algorith could calculate the match between title and each of the plugins, whereafter they get ordered, best matches first. I don't know if this is possible though, maybe with caching (and eventually limiting the amount of results) etc you can do this
     
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    Hoolean

    The JAR file corresponding with the latest build was released 19 hours ago, so if plugins.bukkit.org updates its indexing every 24 hours (I think it's longer) then it may have missed it :p
     
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