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Add a way to search for assets #1177

Open rcorre opened 3 years ago

rcorre commented 3 years ago

Currently you can search https://itch.io/game-assets by tag, but if you enter a search term into the top search bar, it takes you to https://itch.io/search which searches everything (games, assets, ect.). Is it possible to implement searching by an arbitrary search term for only assets? Thanks!

albertvaka commented 2 years ago

Big +1 here! Right now one can only search by tags and not by name. I was looking for "sewer" pixel art backgrounds, and this one (which is exactly what I wanted) didn't show up because it isn't tagged as "sewer". I only found it using Google.

pixelpax commented 2 years ago

yes please! SOooo much quality content made unusable by people who need it not being able to find it :(

DMClVG commented 2 years ago

Annoyed by this as well. +10000

KvartzCode commented 1 year ago

Agreed. This needs to be implemented!

tilleul commented 1 year ago

Not to be an ass but it's quite incredible that this feature has been request for 5+ years (according to google searches) and it's still not here !

What's the unreasonable reason to NOT implement this ?

InfiniteProductions commented 1 year ago

Totally agree with you folks.

What's the unreasonable reason to NOT implement this ?

There is not, it looks like these past years, companies running well known websites hold with code made by people who know how to work, hiring only intern level morons who are there to try to maintain it in operational condition but unable to add the easiest feature. This when they are actually able to run it properly, cause Bricklink for instance is a very unbelievable case, they still shutdown completely the website for 15 mins a day and a full hour a month for backup & maintenance purpose ! It's not a joke, and they still collect fees from sellers who use their website to sell Lego parts & sets.

I witness this for many many websites including some famous ones, looks at selling websites like Amazon, Ebay, many specialized shops (sport, toys, whatever), there are all flawed, full of bad items, not in stock items, discounts/offers issues, you name it. It's a big shame actually but it is what it is unfortunately.

I guess the only way to put pressure is to not use the website for a full day, a full week or more as a punishment, with complete ZERO activity for so much time, they will be force to do something, or they are just as great as governments who are in deep denial.

ErnSur commented 1 year ago

I'm also losing my mind over it. Tag filtering should be an addition to text search, not a replacement.

KoBeWi commented 1 year ago

Actually there is a way to search for assets, but I can't believe this is so dumb. I tried to workaround the lack of search by using Google, like in:itch.io/game-assets bones and it took me to a page itch.io/game-assets/tag-bones, which is a page of non-existent tag, but lists the assets I looked for just fine. Which means that tag search is just keyword search limited to an arbitrary set of words 🤦‍♂️ (or at least there is a list of tags not available from the tag list)

The specific keyword I wanted is not a valid tag. You can't type it in the "select a tag" field. Pressing Enter will just do nothing. But you can just go to itch.io/game-assets/tag-<anything you can think of> and it will display it as if it was a valid tag.

It makes no sense, but at least it works I guess 🤷‍♂️

laniidae commented 1 year ago

Actually, multi-tag searching seems to work, use it like itch.io/game-assets/tag-icons/tag-weapons.

awardell commented 11 months ago

I can see why they wouldn't want to just turn that into a search bar with no modification. The problem is that it looks for EXPLICIT string matches. For example,

https://itch.io/game-assets/tag-grave/tag-tileset vs https://itch.io/game-assets/tag-graves/tag-tileset vs https://itch.io/game-assets/tag-graveyard/tag-tileset vs https://itch.io/game-assets/tag-cemetery/tag-tileset etc.

It has no ability to provide results with synonyms or associated words. Having that exposed through a search bar could give users the impression that there isn't whatever they're looking for, thus hiding valid related assets.

servel333 commented 4 months ago

6 years ago. ☠️

Gawain (DarkGriffin) 6 years ago (+5)

Is there a way to search in, for example, the assets category on itch.io, instead of just landing on the game searches for published games?

I tried shopping for sound effects in assets earlier, and don't have time to flip through all the pages and pages of mostly free stuff. (Great work artists for offering such things by the way! It's a nice problem to have!)

If there is any way to search in a category, I didn't find it intuitively in the website interface. Might want to look into that to promote sales and finding other stuff besides games. I know this is primarily a game site, but we creators need to be able to connect with art/sound/code asset makers too!