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Username auto-complete using XFES [Paid] 1.6.0

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Username auto-complete using XFES - Username auto-complete powered by elasticsearch

  • Replace the stock MySQL-powered username autocomplete with Elasticsearch powered version.
    • Supports partial matching, non-prefix search.
    • Autocomplete is tuned for usernames over text phrases compared to ElasticSearch Essential's autocomplete support
    • Better performance than stock when a large number of users exist
  • Surfaces additional options to control autocomplete
    • Tuning of how "fuzzy" the search is
    • To skip inactive users, and the threshold to...
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1) It would be nice to have this functionality when searching for username in /login/register form, too.

2) Wondering is it possible to search as prefix only, i.e. to match username starting with some word, instead of matching in the middle of the username as it is now?
 
ivp said:
1) It would be nice to have this functionality when searching for username in /login/register form, too.
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XF's username autocomplete (for text entry fields) doesn't really work sanely for something like a new username field in the signup form.

ivp said:
2) Wondering is it possible to search as prefix only, i.e. to match username starting with some word, instead of matching in the middle of the username as it is now?
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It tends to prefer a prefix match where possible, tuning the matching is a little tricky without losing useful funcitonality.
 
Xon said:
XF's username autocomplete (for text entry fields) doesn't really work sanely for something like a new username field in the signup form.
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Actually I was thinking about /misc/validate-username endpoint, so XF would check if the username exist via your add-on (because it better matches all character variants).

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It tends to prefer a prefix match where possible, tuning the matching is a little tricky without losing useful funcitonality.
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But it doesn't make mush sense that when typing @mas you see "tomas" in the autocomplete list. It should display usernames starting with "mas" only.
 
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Hey @Xon the default fuzzy matching is set to "AUTO:0,1" but also gives a warning this might cause performance issues.

Is there a better setting you would recommend that provides a lower level of fuzzy searching without full on turning it off?
 
The defaults are reasonable enough, it is just tinkering with it can increase how fuzzy it accepts which can actually degrade how useful the username search is. The current setting works well enough.

Honestly, most sites using Elasticsearch aren't going to be sending too many queries at elasticsearch even with this add-on. User mentions and tag lookups are frankly rare.
 
Updating this add-on for XF2.3 is currently blocked while I look into a work-around for this bug:

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Fixed Thread 'Tagify autocomplete requires exact text match to display results'

The XF2.3 uses tagify in a few places for username & tag autocomplete, and these requires the search term to exist in the matchs instead of a "close" match. Username autocomplete in posts doesn't require exact text match and will work if the returned results do not contain an exact text match.

This results in tagify potentially filtering out results unexpectedly
 
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