I’ve noticed this a few times in the past, but this is the first time I could be bothered to ask about it. I was just trying to find this previous post of mine from March 10 using terms I remember probably using like “runny nose”, and it doesn’t show up at all in the search results:
It also doesn’t show up using other relatively uncommon words from that post, like “nose”, “handful”, “congestion”, or “Thailand”, or after appending “@andrew” after the search term to search only my own posts. The post in question is in the Taiwan coronavirus developments thread, as opposed to a temp thread or anything.
Why is that? Shouldn’t every post be searchable? @tempogain
I think you need to select “latest post”. Otherwise I think it only turns up each thread a maximum of one time (you have another post meeting the conditions in that thread). If I search on “@andrew runny nose” with “latest post” selected, this thread turns up first and your linked post 2nd.
No, it isn’t, but I did do it after and the post wasn’t showing up. (I just didn’t want to post so many screenshots showing the same point.)
I think this might be it actually? If the search term appears multiple times in a thread, it seems to only show up one case for each thread? And if no user is specified, that post might also be from another user.
I get the same now for “runny nose”. Some of the messing around I did was also was shorter terms, where even with “Latest Post” and “@andrew” it appears that only one post per thread is shown:
