• flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    That doesn’t feel like how search should work. It should be ranking results that fit the search query better higher than ones that fit it less.

    But the existing filters already prescribe an order outside of how closely the search term matches, you brought up top month and I don’t see how you’d want that to work other than a binary filter sorted by votes.

    What you’re describing would be a new sort order, analogous to Reddit’s ‘Relevance’ sort. It’s certainly doable with postgres’ builtin distancing operators, though it be slower.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      10 hours ago

      you brought up top month and I don’t see how you’d want that to work

      The truth is I don’t want “top month”. What I really want is “best result, filtered by this month”. But unfortunately that doesn’t exist, and in the absence of that, I use “top month”.