It's a pain that search results on lemmy show by default ordered by some useless relevance ranking. I can't think of a single time I didn't want newest first. I couldn't find a preference to request that. It would be great if there was one.

The suggestion on c/support on lemmy.world was to make this kind of request on github, but it seems anti-FOSS to me to require a Microsoft account for a fediverse request, so I'm posting here and hoping for the best.

Thanks for any consideration!

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[–] solrize 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks, but that is showing posts and I am hoping to sort search results. Like:

https://lemmy.world/search?q=trump&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

First result is a month old. There is a pulldown to change it on a single result page, but no way I can see to change the default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

This URL seems to work for new: https://lemmy.world/search?type=Posts&listingType=All&page=1&sort=New, so until they fix it in the UI you could bookmark that?

I imagine they will do a lot of work on the search feature at some point.

[–] solrize 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh that's an interesting approach. Yeah I might try that. Thanks. I'm used to the magnifying glass icon being right next to the search entry field, but as long as it's just a link anyway, I might as well use a different link.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sometimes I want to find something, like an image that I have shared previously (for ease of reuse but also to reduce the load on the servers to not have to store it multiple times), and so I'll want to search comments (not posts) by sth like Top Month or Top Week, but ofc cannot:-(. So instead like a chump I just go through them one by one until I find what I wanted... It's annoying to visually see those options provided, yet they do not function as you would expect. So indeed, they need to do a lot of work on the search functions:-).

But this is a thought for the interim:-).