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kory
MOD
(The New Guy)
WarJay77
(Troper Knight)
21st Aug, 2023 07:31:13 PM
Forum search, old and new alike, just sort of looks for any mention of the words across the entire forum. It's never helpful for finding specific things.
Current Project: Black Sheep
Let's say you're looking to start a TRS or image Picking thread for a specific trope, but you need to make sure you aren't covering redundant ground/want to see why certain things are the way they are. The search engine famously sucks, so it's common knowledge that you should instead google something like "TV Tropes blah blah blah forum." However, not only is this something a newer troper isn't as likely to understand, it's not a perfect solution anyway cause it doesn't account for stuff like Pot Holes.
One thing the search engine is good for is the "search by user" function, which at least in my usage seemed to work fine, so how about similar functionality for tropes? You input the Wiki Word for a trope/article/whatever, and the search engine will only output results that link to that page. I understand that this would be redundant for trope searching considering that related pages exist, but I don't see why it couldn't just be a forum exclusive search funtion.