Add back the ability to seach for users and forums!

Sigton

LP_Play wrote:
Wait a second…
Duplicate.
This is a duplicate.

girlsruless

support

myeducate

girlsruless wrote:
support

Here's what paddle2see said:

Those features are on the list of things to add back. I believe it was part of our transition to some new architecture that was necessary to keep the site running.

Proof https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/users/Paddle2See/#comments-39199944
So I guess it's coming back soon…

TheRealNetherBefore

Support, this would make it a lot easier to find duplicates.

Last edited by TheRealNetherBefore (March 23, 2018 18:46:42)

Hyperfinity

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Inkulumo

Hyperfinity wrote:
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*Types Support.*

Why do you support?

--Waterfall--

Sheep_maker wrote:
How would the forum results be displayed? The explore page now gives each project or studio with its thumbnail, but forum topics don't have thumbnails. Maybe it could be something like
Forum searching
campfires

Good idea. I support this, it would be quite helpful with looking up duplicate topics and stuff. There is a workaround for now, you look this up on google

scratch.mit.edu/discuss whateveryouarelookingforhere

or

scratch discuss whateveryouarelookingforhere

ACE009

--Waterfall-- wrote:
Sheep_maker wrote:
How would the forum results be displayed? The explore page now gives each project or studio with its thumbnail, but forum topics don't have thumbnails. Maybe it could be something like
Forum searching
campfires
Good idea. I support this, it would be quite helpful with looking up duplicate topics and stuff. There is a workaround for now, you look this up on google
scratch.mit.edu/discuss whateveryouarelookingforhere
or
scratch discuss whateveryouarelookingforhere

Or a bit more specifically:

site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss whateveryouarelookingfor

The third one will never show anything outside of scratch, so it is slightly better than the other two if you want to stick to the scratch forums.

KJRYoshi07

Support! This is a good suggestion!
I think that it's annoying that the forum search is broken.

JPOWERPUFFGIRLS

This would be very helpful

Super_Scratch_Bros20

This already exists. Use one of four search bars in Guide to Finding Duplicates. It's not a workaround; it already exists. What's even the point in adding a fifth search option? Anyone?

MrFluffyPenguins

Super_Scratch_Bros20 wrote:
This already exists. Use one of four search bars in Guide to Finding Duplicates. It's not a workaround; it already exists. What's even the point in adding a fifth search option? Anyone?

It is a workaround.

BearSlothCoding

Super_Scratch_Bros20 wrote:
This already exists. Use one of four search bars in Guide to Finding Duplicates. It's not a workaround; it already exists. What's even the point in adding a fifth search option? Anyone?

They are workarounds because you have to use some external website, whether it's Google or some website made just to try and replace the lack of a search engine. What's even the point in having that search bar up there for projects and studios when we could just use external methods? Anyone?

ThatOneWeirdDude

Super_Scratch_Bros20 wrote:
This already exists. Use one of four search bars in Guide to Finding Duplicates. It's not a workaround; it already exists. What's even the point in adding a fifth search option? Anyone?

The search bars are not implemented directly into scratch, however, so they arn't as good as a search bar built by the ST probably would be, as they know how the website works.

Last edited by ThatOneWeirdDude (Sept. 15, 2020 14:57:13)

BearSlothCoding

Sigton wrote:
People are told to search for existing topics before suggesting, but the can't do that anymore (If this is a duplicate that is why).

Great point. I often see new users make a duplicate, then when they get told that it is a dupe, they immediately come back with “Well how was I supposed to know that?” Sure, they should have read the stickies before posting but it still could be easier. Unless I know I've seen a similar topic somewhere, I don't look to make sure a topic isn't a dupe because it's not that easy.

MrFluffyPenguins

i support, but i doubt this will get added
i bet people are going to say no support because there's stickies that use custom google searches for duplicates

fdreerf

No support. There are already stickies that use custom google searches to look for duplicates.

silly man makes a silly. Searching in Scratch would be much easier than having your search history be clogged with dupe findings, and many of the alternatives aren't very good for finding duplicates but rather specific keywords.

JPOWERPUFFGIRLS

bump

p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-

fdreerf wrote:
No support. There are already stickies that use custom google searches to look for duplicates.

silly man makes a silly. Searching in Scratch would be much easier than having your search history be clogged with dupe findings, and many of the alternatives aren't very good for finding duplicates but rather specific keywords.

I don't want to open up the “guide to duplicates” post every time I want to looks for duplicates.

Anyways, I support. This will make it a lot easier for unofficial forum helpers in finding dupelicates.

fdreerf

p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p- wrote:
fdreerf wrote:
No support. There are already stickies that use custom google searches to look for duplicates.

silly man makes a silly. Searching in Scratch would be much easier than having your search history be clogged with dupe findings, and many of the alternatives aren't very good for finding duplicates but rather specific keywords.
I don't want to open up the “guide to duplicates” post every time I want to looks for duplicates.

SILLY MAN MADE A SILLY. YOU ARE TO LAUGH AT THE SILLY. YOU ARE NOT TO QUESTION THE SILLY.

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