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  • Indeed. Plus examples are nice... I can reproduce the queries and apply them to a restored backup to see whether they are working as intended, and then tweak as necessary.

    I've just made a set of changes to search that should speed it up as I've noticed it slowing recently as the volume of content has passed some magic number in which the old query structure that once was fast, was becoming slow. A few tweaks and it seems fast again.

  • The realisation that the conversations and comments links on user profiles are actually searches ("all") of that user's content that you can change the filters on is a bit of a revelation for me. I can never remember the format for how you put user (or anything other than keywords) into the search box, and have had equally frustrating times looking for things...

    (btw getting a lot of server error this morning)

  • (btw getting a lot of server error this morning)

    That's me experimenting and tweaking... should be fine now, I've stopped tweaking.

    The syntax is authorId:47686

    Internally we use different different things in different places, i.e. I track edited_by and created_by... but when searching you don't care, you just care about "bob posted x" and whether a moderator edited it to remove something (extremely rare, can't recall doing it in many moons) shouldn't exclude it from the search result.

    So the query reflects the ambiguity of what you're searching on, and calls it authorId.

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