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That's been that way for a while...

I don't follow what's happening on FA, but I know from a distance... why are we still all on this website, already?

Its the largest place for furry art?
I also don't follow much on FA's happenings, Just post stuff and interact with people.

Same reason everyone still uploads to YouTube: it's where the audence is.

basically FA is the Youtube of the furry where Ads is what drives the site to run and the artists that thrive most are the ones that get the most viewership through ads. but instead of google it's because IMVU. Also why I'm glad ad blockers exist and that the ToC has nothing about prohibiting the use of ad blocking.

Currently it's just the default. You can still change it to "all time", which still has the same limitations you brought up already.

Yea, Don't think it's going to help with 'discovery' of artist, as sometimes that is just ONE way to find someone XD

Tags being weighted, can change default search settings in Global Site Settings...
Still no search term filters.

Yea, I've not had trouble with "Findability" rather HOW much I can find. I've been using keywords since they were implemented, cause it always helps XD

They mention filtering by search term on their "roadmap" near the bottom of the post.

Awful, pointless changes. Hey, here's a novel idea...how about they fix the thumbnails? It's not even in their 2022 roadmap. What a joke.

I don't get the complaint. FA is a free website, it has a very small income stream, and it simply cannot deliver the same features as multi-million users websites with advertisement income.

Most websites will limit search results to avoid stagnation. Furthermore, search results are always weighted unless you use chronological search to ensure better matches.

These changes are just how social searches should work, and indeed how they do work practically everywhere.

Not sure there is a complaint? I guess more bummed that they seem to be tackling problems that aren't there. And that a problem I'd brought up in a journal a week ago makes alot of the major changes moot with the search feature.

Some of the larger keywords are so popular that the new features are 'broken'
Search Canine by date/descending, you only get 7 days of results, you wind up Back-end failing after that. I suspect that alot of major single keywords you can enter won't even allow you to use most of the 'search by time' functions, since the site is limited by the returns.

That's unfortunately true for all website searches. Unless you have infrastructures in place to handle the load of full database search & serve (i.e. caching), you are limited to a certain number of results, and with common keywords those can loose usefulness, even Twitter is limited to 3200 results.

I actually wrote my own search program for FA using a scraped database, since it runs locally it just returns all the results cause there is no real limit, but alas unless FA becomes a LOT more popular and can afford the extra costs, search will remain limited for short, common queries :(

FA has been the only site I wind up finding a limit on. Though haven't been on other sites too much, Inkbunny, Yiffstar and such

FA simply tells you there is one, but all sites have limits. The ones who don’t are usually not very populated, so full searches aren’t that expensive (computationally speaking) because there aren’t as many results to pull up and it doesn’t happen that often.

Even Twitter and google have search limits, so yeah, FA is not doing anything uncommon or weird.

Do you know alternatives to FA?

When i search the web for images it seems to be the only one furry site that appears, even more so when searchign for special and nice interests

SoFurry/Yiffstar and InkBunny are the other 2 I know of.

This is indeed a stupid change, but you actually sorta saved me some major time and effort by making a journal about it.

I was looking for a story, that I knew involved slubbers, that I distinctly remembered the image for (of a slubber, sitting in front of a mirror on a stool). I had an itch to read the story again, with its lovely twist. But I could not for the life of me find it. It used to come up as the 3rd or 4th result when searching '@keywords permanent', but it wasn't anymore.

At first I thought it had been deleted... And from the art style and content, I was pretty certain it was one of pieces... And then I took a look at your journal, and realized the reason it wasn't showing up was probably because of this change. So I went to advanced search, turned it from 5 years to all time, and...yep, there it was: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/10040778/

So...long story short, yes, it's a dumb, jarring, and frankly unhelpful change, but you saved my OCD-ass a ton of trauma by calling attention to it. Thanks, Dombrus!