Open K4LCIFER opened 3 weeks ago
The current community search only filters by its title and name.
I wouldn't be opposed to adding the sidebar there, but it might need some discussion. Could be too wide a net and catch too many communities. There is no "relevance" sort here either, so sorting by community popularity or published time might get much worse.
This would work well if the search is done on a filtered variant of the sidebar content, probably generated with natural language processing. It would at least need to filter out the rule list, and links to communities and users.
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Describe the feature you'd like
Currently, when searching for communities, the search query only looks at the names of communities. This can often result in relevant communities not being shown, as some communities don't have the exact topic in the community name.
What I propose is that the search query should also search through community sidebars. Sidebars often contain a summary/introduction for the type of content that the community contains.