The Search System Has Some Errors

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#1

Greetings!

I noticed some (presumably minor) mistakes with the searching mechanics in the Developer Hub, and I just need to point them out.

1. Multiple Search Predictions of the Same Page

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As you can see, the term “Scripting” yields the “Script Terrain” article, but it’s displayed twice.
This is the same with API References:
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I noticed this on many search terms, thus, I conclude that this may be universal (not just local to several particular search inputs).

Something weird I noticed is that these “clones” of pages always appear on top of the other search predictions (I don’t know if that means anything).

2. The Search Predictions are Order-Based

What I mean is that simply typing “MouseButton1Down” doesn’t show the predictions of “GuiButton.MouseButton1Down” (which it should):
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But, if I actually type out the latter quote in that order (like “GuiButton…”), the predictions yield appropriately:
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But once again, the top two are the same and are duplicated for some reason (error #1).

The pattern of this “bug” is quite uncertain. At first, I thought it was any search term that involved a member or method of an object. But then, after some experimenting, I saw that it works with some pages and it breaks for other pages.

3. Pressing ENTER While Hovering Over a Prediction Opens that Page

Basically, when I have a term like “GUI” and I hover over something like “Intro to GUIs” and I press enter (hoping it would bring me to the search page instead of any articles/API references), it directs me to the page I was hovering over (even though I didn’t click).

Here’s a video outlining this:

When I hover over “Intro to GUI” and “TweenService:Create()”, I’m not clicking. Instead, I’m pressing enter. Notice that it still opens that page.

This happens 100% of the time.

Those are all the errors. I know that there may be more, but these are the ones that I noticed through my use of the Developer Hub.

Thank you for stopping by,
and Happy Developing!

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#2

To add onto that, some pages are not searchable at all, despite being accessible. Lua Chat System is one of them.
Trying to search for it yields no results:
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#3

I needed to go check out the arguments of Player.Chatted. I go to search Chatted: Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

Look at the results. Player.Chatted is nowhere to be seen. It should be the first result. It’s more annoying where I remember a name but not the class it is an event of.

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#4

I have to revive this topic because I’m flabbergasted that this hasn’t been even looked at in 6 months. Not to sound rude, but the monthly feedbacks for the DevHub are pretty much pointless if it’s only article/API-reference specific, and not the sitewide-issues.

Not to mention, the results of the searches aren’t even ordered from most relevant to least, it’s a whole jumbled mess.

Better search system means a more likelihood that I can find the articles that I read once and find useful later on. I can’t remember the exact name, so the search system has to be a little lax to allow room for related words.

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