Improving the Mod Portal Search

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I have noticed that the default result is now sorted by relevance. THANK YOU!
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Speaking of default. The 'Internals' results on the left side is disabled by default. This really bugs me.
Another issue, is that if I search for mods by a specific person, like 'Schall', I get results like 'shallow'. This should Never happen.
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jamiechi1 wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:46 pm Speaking of default. The 'Internals' results on the left side is disabled by default. This really bugs me.
Another issue, is that if I search for mods by a specific person, like 'Schall', I get results like 'shallow'. This should Never happen.
Internal mods have always been hidden by default. Eventually I might add some kind of user preference system to these filters.

If you want exact matches you can add quotes around the search term https://mods.factorio.com/search?query=%22Schall%22
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vinzenz wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 3:25 pm If you want exact matches you can add quotes around the search term https://mods.factorio.com/search?query=%22Schall%22
Things like these need to be documented somewhere. Right now the search is a mystery box, which makes it less usable than it could be.
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curiosity wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 3:31 pm
vinzenz wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 3:25 pm If you want exact matches you can add quotes around the search term https://mods.factorio.com/search?query=%22Schall%22
Things like these need to be documented somewhere. Right now the search is a mystery box, which makes it less usable than it could be.
Or you can just search mods by user: https://mods.factorio.com/user/Schallfalke
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curiosity wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 3:31 pm
vinzenz wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 3:25 pm If you want exact matches you can add quotes around the search term https://mods.factorio.com/search?query=%22Schall%22
Things like these need to be documented somewhere. Right now the search is a mystery box, which makes it less usable than it could be.
There's a help text when going to https://mods.factorio.com/search as well as a toggleable tooltip on the (i) symbol
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vinzenz wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 5:05 pm There's a help text when going to https://factorio.com/search as well as a toggleable tooltip on the (i) symbol
Sorry, I guess it hasn't registered yet.
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