Some people have said the searching mechanism on ninjastic.space is bad, so I'm looking for ways to improve it.

Today I'm releasing this beta page:

https://search-beta.ninjastic.space

I'll explore new designs for it and take suggestions (let me know what you think). The plan is for this page to become the new ninjastic.space (at least for the searching part).

The main difference between this beta and the ninjastic.space search page is that now you can search everything with a single query. You can use special search tags to filter better your results. By default, the search will also only consider the content from each post itself (ignoring any user quotes, that is, anything inside quotes that have the "Quoted from: USER" title). The content that shows up on the results page is the actual content (no user quotes) and the pagination is now numbered (max of 10k results, so 500 pages). Results are ordered by relevance (sorting by date will be added really soon).

This allows more complex searches like this one:

All posts from LoyceV, where he quotes TryNinja, on topic ID 1935098, made from 2017-01-01 to 2019-01-01, with the exact phrase "signing address":

P.S: I have messed up separating URLs when indexing the data so that will be fixed in the near future when I reindex everything (takes many hours).

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SEARCH TAGS:


For title and quotes, it will do an exact match search by default. To do keywords, you can use :* (i.e title:*"title with keywords")
For author, topic_id, board_id, and quoted_user, you can specify multiple options ("OR") by using | (i.e author:TryNinja|theymos|"John Doe" board_id:25|12)

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SEARCHING EXAMPLES: