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Chat search fails to return more than 10000 messages [duplicate]
Chat search is currently unable to return any more than approximately 10000 messages, instead returning "0 messages found". I'm pretty sure it didn't do that before.
The limit seems to be ...
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AI enhanced search doesn't understand voting rules [duplicate]
There's an upvote button in the AI-enhanced search, which upvotes all questions and answers used for the content. That works, but you see the green banner "Thanks for upvoting this content!" ...
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The “AI search” on the Math Stack Exchange (and other site with MathJax) can’t show MathJax properly [duplicate]
I hate the AI search, but I still want to point out a thing:
The search can’t show the MathJax formatting properly, the AI search has the “$$” thing, so it means that the search can’t show the ...
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Save as Q&A errors under AI search results [duplicate]
Apparently, we have AI search results now, and a "Save as Q&A" button underneath.
I wanted to explore what this button does (hopefully not what I think it does), but currently, all it ...
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How to opt out of AI search? [duplicate]
I noticed that any search has a new feature now, of automated GenAI response, e.g. when searching for how to opt out of AI search? I got this:
How to get rid or opt out of the part in red circle, i.e....
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Why does querying for a post with -2000 votes return one with -1?
https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=score%3a..-2000, for a reason unbeknownst to me, returns solely How is it possible that "I" (the user Krumelur) exists twice?, which has ...
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Why is there a tick next to the “0 answers” of a question?
I just noticed that there was a tick next to the "0 answers" of a question when I’m searching it in this site.
See the screenshot below for the question:
I’ve never seen that case before, ...
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Using "and" in the search field always does a regular search instead of a tag search
Background on searching
There are two search types one can perform:
Tag search
Only returns questions when searching for tags, like [tag-a] [tag-b] which gives results of questions that have both ...
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No margin between tags in the search results on stackexchange.com [closed]
If you search for anything on stackexchange.com, the results show tags that are way too close together. Surely a result of other recent changes to tag rendering.
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To find old images in chat, you still have to search with the Imgur URL
I was recently looking for a graph I had posted to a private chat room several months ago. In order to find it, I went to search for messages posted by me containing i.sstatic.net in the room I knew I ...
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Search results are incomplete
E.g., https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=Discord+gradio returns no results. Yet, a post contains both "Discord" and "gradio".
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Search help links to Stack Overflow for Teams on all sites instead of the help center
The "Search help" link in the search bar is supposed to link to this help page but is currently linking to a Stack Overflow for Teams article instead. This bug can be reproduced on all of ...
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Hide search tooltip when focus moves away from search [duplicate]
I wanted to test out the new focus styles using the guidance on this comment. When I tabbed into the search box, the tooltip showing how to search popped up, which is fine. But when I tabbed out of ...
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Search seems to be almost completely broken
Advanced searches such as closed:yes and user:me are returning no results or the wrong results. I'm pretty sure there are closed questions on MSE, for example:
And these aren't my posts:
Even a ...
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Why is the URL advanced search operator only finding lowercase URLs?
Consider the search url:DarthFubuMVC (even searching globally). It returns posts that have that GitHub username in lowercase (https://github.com/darthfubumvc/htmltags), but not ones like A: fubumvc - ...
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Stack Overflow blog : same post with different languages in the search result
While conducting a search on the Stack Overflow blog using the keyword "Winter Bash 2017", I observed the presence of three posts sharing an identical title. Upon examining each post, it ...
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Enhancing Stack Overflow blog search: filtering out test entries
In the Stack Overflow blog search, upon entering the keyword "Test", I was presented with a compilation of blog post titles.
However, it's worth noting that among these results, two entries ...
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I can't search for my Saves in stackexchange.com
I can't find how to access all my saves (saved across all Stack Exchange communities).
Before the migration from Bookmarks to Saves in 2022, all my bookmarks from all communities (sites) used to be ...
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Server error when searching in my saves
Searching in my “saves” (with the in:saves operator) does not currently work and
displays the error
Oops! Something Bad Happened!
We apologize for any inconvenience, but an unexpected error occurred ...
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Server error when attempting to use the inquestion:<id> and inquestion:this search operators
When I try to use inquestion:389834 or inquestion:this, I get a 500 HTTP status code:
I would really like to use this function.
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When using search and sorting by activity, user action is sometimes missing
On Puzzling.SE I used the search created:2023 and sorted by Active, and it looks as though some of the posts have a missing action between the user and the time. (The same bug as the one for migrated ...
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When focusing the search box in a private beta, hints fail to load, causing a popup with the login page
I just followed by a link from another question here and got this funny behavior after clicking on the search bar:
The entire site opened in a new popup window!
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No dates in search results for community wiki post
Searching for regular (non-wiki) posts results with a list of posts with visible dates (asked, answered...):
If you do search for wiki posts there're no dates at all:
Could we please add dates for ...
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On sites where the reduced ads privilege page is suppressed, the page still shows in help center search results
Since 2013 the Help Center search includes privilege pages. The search results seem to be network-wide, with site url placeholders. The shared search index is an issue for the reduced ads privilege, ...
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stackexchange.com search is down
All attempts to do network-wide searches via stackexchange.com (example) are returning the "Oops! Something Bad Happened!" page:
This is a problem, as this is the only way that Charcoal ...
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The question view count displayed in a search result page is inaccurate [duplicate]
Example from android stackexchange: 7 views in search:
vs. 168 views:
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Chat RSS feed for tagged/xxx broken
When you use the tagged/ prefix for a search term in chat, you (are supposed to) get all messages with a specific tag. 1
However, the generated RSS link in the lower right corner of the results is ...
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Why does the Search icon look weird on small screen widths? [duplicate]
On a small screen width, the search icon looks like this:
In my opinion, the search button should look like all the other icons and not stand out as if it is 3D. I don't recall seeing this before, so ...
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Search has an extra border in the topbar
As seen in the screenshot, there is an extra border over the search icon on the topbar. This started today, coincedentally with the start of Winter Bash, but not caused by it as confirmed by staff.
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Searching for a word within posts randomly returns tag results instead [duplicate]
When I use the search function within LawSE to find posts with a particular word, it randomly adds square brackets [ ] around what I'm looking for and so only shows tag results.
I've carried a brief ...
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Close search "help" box on unfocus
I don't specifically require any accessibility features, but I prefer to use the site with my keyboard sometimes. When I tab through the link/input fields the help box that appears below the top-bar ...
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Tags with certain special characters don't display correctly in search results
On Spanish Language Stack Exchange we have an [españa] tag. It is correctly displayed in the list of questions tagged [españa]:
but not when searching for keywords, where it shows as [espa#a]:
The ...
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Help Center page search results appear to be outdated by the tag email change
I see that email notifications for tag subscriptions was recently removed, but when I search the Help Center on various sites, the search results still indicate "email" as a possibility, ...
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Tag synonyms and searching
In relation to an ongoing election, this post was mentioned: Include information about elections in the newsletter. One of the tags on that question is newsletter, which is a synonym of community-...
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Wildcard tag search expands maximum of 20 tags even when there are more
I believe I have found a bug with the wildcard expansion in tag search. Examples in Stack Overflow but are likely applicable on other sites:
Working: Searching for [python-2.7] -[python*] shows no ...
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Don't treat code blocks as spaces when searching
I wanted to find all the posts containing the phrase call or call. In my case, I'll demonstrate on Stack Overflow, but this happens on Stack Exchange search too, so this isn't just an Stack Overflow ...
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Questions not tagged [x] appear on the tag's question page
I'm not sure when this started, but I've only noticed it in the last hour. It appears that questions not tagged with a particular tag are appearing within that tags listings. Example: https://...
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No pagination on /tags when searching regardless of result set size
When searching via the tagfilter input on the /tags page the filtered results only ever returns one page of results. Pagination is never available regardless of search query.
Here is an example of ...
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Quotes are ignored in search when there's a word/tag outside quotes
I noticed that a search for multiple "pattern people watch however go the pattern" (for example) returns 1 result (which is nonsense — it should be 0) but removing the first word returns 0 ...
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Search fails when original text includes backticks for formatting
A Stack Overflow post including the following:
service1 has integration tests that needs to call the API on service2.
...or in its Markdown source:
`service1` has integration tests that needs to ...
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Searching for moderators in the Moderators tab on the /users page is broken on all meta sites (except MSE)
Searching for any moderator on a meta site (except MSE) in the Moderators tab on the /users page does not return any results at all.
Here's a GIF showing how searching in the Moderators tab works on ...
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Searching for a username on a Meta site under the "Participation" tab throws a 500 server error
Attempting to search for a user on a child meta site's /users page, with the "Participation" tab selected, will always fail, and throw a 500 server error in the console.
Here's a .gif ...
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What is a reliable way to search for URLs containing tilde?
Let us say that I want to search (on some Stack Exchange site) for posts linking to some website, and the URL contains the tilde ~. For the sake of example, let us try python.net/~goodger. (I ...
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New Activity bar in search page stopped appearing on all community sites
The bar of new activities in search page such as 1 question with new activity is no longer appearing to click.
Tested browsers and OS
Windows 11 Pro Version 21H2
Google Chrome 103.0.5060.66 64bits
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The search bar, by default, places the cursor at the beginning of the text on small viewports
When searching for something on a small viewport, selecting the search icon places the cursor at the beginning of the text in the search bar instead of the end:
This is especially prevalent when ...
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Questions migrated to other sites incorrectly show as "closed" instead of "migrated" in search results
When a question is migrated to a different site, the copy on the original site (the migration stub) has "[migrated]" appended to the title. Here's an example.
On the question page itself:
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Markdown formatting problems in the Help Center article "How do I search?"
In the Help Center article How do I search?, there seem to be a few Markdown formatting problems:
In the section "Boolean Operators", the subheading "OR operator" is not rendered ...
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Search bar is cutting out parts of the characters [duplicate]
The search bars are cutting out the bottom parts of some characters with descenders (like g). This is annoying since some of the letters look pretty similar with this (like g and q)
The text above ...
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Stack Overflow keeps showing me CAPTCHAs when I try to search [duplicate]
I'm trying to search Stack Overflow using Chrome 99.0.4844.82 on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri), but I keep getting redirected to the CAPTCHA, even though I'm even logged in to Google.
Screen recording ...
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"More Stack Exchange Communities" search doesn't work in chat server
When you go into the chat server and enter anything into the "more Stack Exchange communities" search bar, no suggestions pop up:
Also note that the input text is badly offset to the left ...
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