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I've seen some general dissatisfaction around finding communities, would having the search also check for matching keywords in the community descriptions improve things? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm just floating an idea that someone inspired in a comment section elsewhere, it sounds like an improvement to me but maybe people don't like this idea, tell me what you think.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think that would be great. However, the issue for me isn't so much finding it as it being really annoying to actually subscribe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yep, I have no idea why I can or cannot subscribe to one or the other community. I really want to support these communities by adding content and commenting.

[–] Brad_Brace 3 points 2 years ago

Wait, it doesn't do that already? All this time I've been searching for communities assuming the search also looks into the description.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That would absolutely help, finding communities is still very fiddly.

In my opinion, it would be best to search in the following order:

Title of the community
Description of the community
Topics within the community with the keywords

An example would be the following listing for the keyword "film"

| Result for "film" | type | |

[–] IntangibleSloth 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, maybe with less weight than the name

[–] yukichigai 3 points 2 years ago

100% that would help.

[–] bquinlan 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I think that would help. Ideally there would be a check box option to enable or disable that feature.