Lack of interest 2.2 Search Forums: Filterable search forum results

[Sim]

I notice from screenshots and @Kier 's video that search forum results don't have a filter option.

I think it would add a lot of value if users could filter results like they can with normal forums.

 

[Kirby]

That's difficult and most likely won't be done:
The result set is trimmed (probably with some overfetching to leave room for permissions, etc.) to the amount of results configured and this resultset is cached.
If you wanted to apply filters and/or sorting on top of that, you could/would get kinda unusable (wrong) results.

 

[Sim]

It's possible on new posts searches - why not on search forum searches?

 

[Mike]

New post searches have other limitations, notably that they only return threads active quite recently. If you applied a filter there to get threads created by a particular user, it'd be quite unlikely that you'd actually get accurate results unless their threads were created recently.

The flexibility of the thread searcher based system means that it can create some rough queries, hence we cache the results from that and then we can relatively quickly filter that down to the set the user can see (we do overfetching as @Kirby suggests).

It's not exactly impossible but it could have fairly significant performance implications (if regularly hit at least).

 

[Alpha1]

Maybe limit it to specific usergroups to decrease the performance hit to a manageable level. Default = off.