Hello,
I am wondering what I can do to make the search function on the website work. Currently I am trying to find Hacker’s Keyboard. I know it’s there. I can browse to it (which is a pain). Why is it that when I type “Hacker’s Keyboard” into the search box (without quotes) I get three unrelated apps and not Hacker’s Keyboard. If I use quotes I get no results. Isn’t an exact match search the easiest thing to implement? How is it so bad?
-Colin
Searching for Keyboard works: https://staging.f-droid.org/search?q=keyboard
But I can confirm that “Hacker” doesn’t find anything, neither does “Hacker’s”.
FIY: @uniqx
First of all: Sorry for inconvenience, please bear with us, this search application is still under development and obviously not entirely free of bugs.
I’ll take a look at it and will report any progress on this matter in the projects issue tracker: Hacker's Keyboard does not show up when searching for Hacker (#14) · Issues · F-Droid / Website Search · GitLab
I’m relying on some quite sophisticated full-text search libraries. I’m doing so, because programming well performing full-text search indexes with relevance sorting are not a week-end project… Our search page on the other hand actually is pretty much a weekend project.
The complexity here actually lies in using those libraries correctly. Maybe the ' in “Hacker’s Keyboard” is messing with the search query syntax or something… need to investigate. Help with debugging would also be appreciated 
Thanks for that. I didn’t mean to bash your search tool. I’m sure it’s not too easy to build.
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