goplayoutside3
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3 weeks ago Thank you for reporting this bug. I can replicate the following behavior on the old frontend:
- I have a collection named 'COOL' and a collection named 'Correct Collection'. Typing three letters 'cor' while searching for a collection displays Correct Collection as an option, but typing four letters 'cool' is required before the search filters for 'COOL'. Typing three letters 'coo' does not return my collection named COOL. Agreed that it would be a better experience to type two letters 'co' for both collections to appear, or at least a consistent required number of letters for every search.
- I have three collections named 'Birds One', 'Birds Two', and 'Third with birds'. Typing three letters 'bir' while searching for a collection returns no collections, while typing four letters 'bird' returns only 'Birds One' and 'Birds Two'. Agreed it would be a better experience to type three letters 'bir' and all three collections with the word birds in the name would appear.
In the new frontend I can confirm the bug where:
- While searching for a collection, typing three letters 'bir' returns the three collections with birds in the name, but typing four letters 'bird' returns all of my collections regardless of birds is in the name. Agreed this is buggy behavior.
Big picture, the Zooniverse team is focusing development on the new frontend (FEM Github repo), and I'm happy to write up an Issue over there because fixing this bug would definitely improve a volunteer's experience! I'll tag your account in a comment on the FEM Issue so you can subscribe to updates. Thanks again!
yshish
eatyourgreens
Expected behavior
When searching for an existing collection to add a subject in it, you start typing any word from the collection name and you get a list of your collections (in a pop-up list) containing the typed characters. With some collections it seems to work fine. F.e. collection called Corpses gets listed after typing the first 3 characters "cor". Collection called WOW appears even after typing 2 characters "wo".
The difference seems to be that there's no other collection that would include 'wo' in the name while there's also a collection including 'co' in the name (called 'COOL') - so I believe it requires 3 characters for the 'Corpses' to sort out whether I search for 'corpses' or 'cool'. I'm surprised it doesn't show me both after typing 'co' though, as it is something I expect as a user. But with other collections, it becomes even more weird.
Current behavior
I'm having also two collections called Birds of ... (there's a project location instead of "..."), and I can also add images into a shared collection created by someone else called C&S best of birds that appears listed among my collections. As you can see, all the three collections include words 'birds'.
When searching for one of the first two collections (Birds of ...) and typing 'Birds' into the search box, only the third collection 'C&S best of birds' appears in the list as if there were no other collections including 'birds' in its name. This is odd! (And I would say buggy.) Only after typing 'Birds of' (8 characters!) I get those two collections listed but I have to write all the 8 characters first. When I only type the first 7 ('Birds o') I get no results. Why it doesn't work the same as with the 'Corpses' where I only need to write 'cor'? I would prefer to see all the 3 collections that include 'birds' in their name listed after typing just 'bir'. This is so irritating. And why it displays 'C&S best of birds' after typing just 'birds' and not the other two that also include the word?
I also wonder if there were 3 collections, one called 'Australian birds - Kalbarri', second one called 'Australian birds - Jarrah forest' and third called 'Juveniles of Australian birds' how many characters of 'Australian' I would have to type to get any of them listed? (If there was also 'Australian mammals' then it would require to type the whole 'Australian birds' or 'Australian mammals' to get either of the 4 collections listed?)
Steps to replicate
Create the same collections I mentioned above, or your owns. You'll need at least 3 collections that include the same word (of at least 5 characters) in their name - two of them will start with that word, the third will have the word after another word(s). Try the same with two shared words in the name (f.e. 'Bird of'). Try it with a word made out of more than 5 characters etc. Then go either to the classification of an "old" frontend project or to the Talk interface of a subject (image/video). Click on the 'Collect' button under the subject, then use the search box. Type slowly the characters of the word shared in names of the test-collections (f.e. 'Birds') and see what happens.
Additional information
When adding a subject into an existing collection from the classification interface of a new frontend project, the search gives nice results - I get all three birds collections displayed immediately after typing 'bir'. Sadly, there seems to be a bug - if I type one more character ('bird'), it displays all my collections (Corpses, WOW, COOL, etc.) instead of just the three that actually include 'Birds' in their name. And after typing another one more character 'birds' it gives me the 'No matches found' result. That's very odd. Don't you think? :) Shall I start a new issue for this one?