World Anvil Community Search Ability
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World Anvil Community Search Ability
New Feature Addition · World management · Created by tlcassis
accepted
SearchWA -Search -FindAuthors FindWorlds FindArticles SearchCommunity FindPremier Discover DiscoverImprovements -DiscoverSearch
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Right now, it is extremely difficult to locate other world authors, worlds, and articles in WA. There is a DISCOVER button on my profile. :-) There is an ARTICLE button on the DISCOVER pull down. :-) It does NOT have a search function! It should! Why can I not search for an article there? There is a WORLDS button under the DISCOVER button. It does have a search function! (yea!) But it is only searchable by genre. And my world doesn't show up in any of my world's genres even though I just published articles in it yesterday. Why not? Why can I not search for a world by name there? There is no AUTHORS Button at all under the DISCOVER button. There should be! And it should have a search function! It should list the "Premier League" authors. It should be searchable by Guild Status, and it should be searchable by name. It would be extremely helpful and create a better sense of community for everyone - people who have been around and newcomers to have a better WA level search function.How does this feature request address the current situation?
It adds the ability to find people in the community through key ways you might remember them!What are other uses for this feature request?
I think this could be implemented "generically" and reused, but I leave the design and coding to you...Follow up
Ok folks - the writing on this suggestion was supposed to be playful and a bit silly, and I deliberately went out of my way to do that so it would not sound critical... I never put a happy face emoji or put in "yea!" asides in a communication unless it's supposed to be fun. I do admit to being passionately interested in this suggestion. I note since you don't like my tone that I did cap the button titles so you could follow as I wandered through the menus (though you didn't mention the caps). Caps do shout a lot so it might have influenced tone, but I wanted to make sure I was delineating the menus clearly. So... on to "should". The world is a very big place, WA is a worldwide community, and we kinda have to give each other some grace because, as this interaction points out to me, even when we're speaking the same language, we often aren't, and no one has invented mind reading irl yet. The word "should" in the part of the world I come from is never a requirement, and is only a suggestion. It's never direction and it's super soft even as a suggestion. 90% of the time a statement that uses the term "should" is totally ignored. In short, I used the softest language I know intending to show you what people feel when they engage with the page - it seemed to me that walking you through the experience of the user would help you see where we logically expect functionality to live and what we expect it is going to be. User interfaces are hard. In my experience, it's difficult when you do UI design to interact with an interface the way a user interacts with it - you're thinking about all the mechanisms you have to put in place and all the data you have to get the user to give you to implement the functions and making sure there's no holes in the implementation. I totally get that - which is why I walked it through the way I did - trying to be helpful, and (I thought) playful. You obviously don't have to do it the way I outlined - or even provide the specific features I proposed - it's a suggestion, but personally I find it more helpful to have people give me more feedback/info on the problems and possible solutions rather than less. It just makes the work easier to have a tangible starting place to think about the problem. Not sure if this makes it better or increases understanding across the board, but I hope so. Thanks for at least reading this far. I'm very happy that you decided to implement this feature - thank you! I think it will totally help make WA a better place to world build.
The Team's Response
Hi! Thanks for the suggestion. This has been accepted as part of a future community update. We also wanted to take a minute to address the tone used in the suggestion. While we appreciate the passion you have for the community and wanting to discover what your fellow Anvilites are working on, the repeated use of "should" came across as forceful in our meeting. Remember that this board is for feature suggestions (which we are always super happy to read), not for the community to tell us what we should be doing instead. Thanks for understanding!
Current score
56/300 Votes · +14201 points
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+100
by Papizan
on 2023-09-27 05:42 -
+300
by devinsxdesigns
on 2023-09-27 01:06 -
+300
by Zen Arrow
on 2023-09-26 22:32The Community Search ability will greatly enhace the process of finding indivdual authors and worlds . It will make an extreamly useful but complicated system more user friendly. I feel this will make the community experience more enjoyable .
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+300
by Rômulo Fernandes
on 2023-09-26 13:48 -
+300
by Prutus0
on 2023-09-25 07:58 -
+300
by Pennpaper15
on 2023-09-25 07:28 -
+300
by CannedStrawberries
on 2023-09-24 23:14 -
+100
by LordLithca
on 2023-09-24 21:30 -
+100
by DesNordlund
on 2023-09-23 07:47 -
+300
by Sir Marluxia
on 2023-09-22 23:29 -
+300
by Writing Bishop
on 2023-09-22 04:02 -
+300
by Bhailan
on 2023-09-21 23:53 -
+300
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+100
by MKHETH II
on 2023-09-20 18:05 -
+300
by B3ast
on 2023-09-19 21:27 -
+300
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+100
by skorpeon450
on 2023-09-18 13:43 -
+100
by OmegaCerberus
on 2023-09-16 00:58 -
+300
by illumiinae
on 2023-09-15 19:05 -
+300
by Scalenex
on 2023-09-15 00:57ANY additional search options would be welcome, no matter how small.
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+300
by SanctifiedSavage
on 2023-09-14 18:52 -
+300
by tjtrewin
on 2023-09-14 13:07 -
+300
by Kwyn Marie
on 2023-09-13 04:46 -
+300
by GaugeDanger
on 2023-09-13 01:40This is World Anvil's biggest blind spot in my opinion. Being able to find other author's work is not only a great opportunity for community building it's helpful for the creative process as well. Seeing how other author's have used categories or maps in unique ways, or interesting coding etc is a great chance to be inspired.
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+100
by Zyble
on 2023-09-12 11:08 -
+300
by Pimyo
on 2023-09-11 23:08 -
+300
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+300
by Pete Nelson
on 2023-09-11 20:26This seems like a good feature to add that would help to build the WA community in addition to all the other ways that exist now.
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+100
by Solstice
on 2023-09-10 23:45 -
+300
by Rayna Fairbell
on 2023-09-10 11:42It is kind of weird to have to use Google to find people and their worlds on WA instead of just being able to use the actual site. Most of the community is active on Discord, but I've been wanting more ways to connect through the site for a while now so I'm 100% for it.
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+300
by Wordigirl
on 2023-09-10 10:33We've asked for this before, but I was told that with the millions of worlds in the AnvilSpace, the site would lag like crazy :( It's very annoying to try to search people on Google and tack "WorldAnvil" on the back of their name and sometimes that doesn't even work, but I don't think the team has had the neccessary developments to be able to successfully implement this feature. Nevertheless, I believe this is worth a large vote just in case something has changed. Here's to being hopeful! Even if for the distant future. Thanks for suggesting this again. God bless. <3
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+300
by amelianite
on 2023-09-10 04:23This would be extremely useful. I have searched the articles button loads of times and it frustrates me that I can't search for specific articles.
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+100
by AvalonFaery
on 2023-09-10 02:27Even though I like being rather private, I can see the benefit of improving the search function
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+300
by SixPathsSage
on 2023-09-09 13:46 -
+300
by Nanotide
on 2023-09-09 10:02 -
+100
by Keon Croucher
on 2023-09-09 09:15 -
+300
by JoellaKay
on 2023-09-09 00:31 -
+300
by LoreParmenter
on 2023-09-08 22:35 -
+300
by HunterChristmas1247
on 2023-09-08 21:53 -
+300
by DaisyChick
on 2023-09-08 17:29 -
+300
by strixxline
on 2023-09-08 12:58 -
+300
by AsterVela
on 2023-09-08 12:29 -
+300
by PrippyMontyPoppyCock
on 2023-09-08 11:10 -
+1
by SebGreg732
on 2023-09-07 22:04 -
+300
by Ratha
on 2023-09-07 21:05 -
+300
by Jockey_world
on 2023-09-07 20:36 -
+300
by Nimsy
on 2023-09-07 20:18 -
+100
by lillianacasper
on 2023-09-07 17:04Yes, this would be incredibly useful for locating articles easily!
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+300
by AwsmChimera
on 2023-09-07 11:24 -
+300
by kitoypoy
on 2023-09-07 11:21 -
+100
by finaldraftrpg
on 2023-09-07 09:27It's not how I use WA, but if it helps people I'm happy to back it.
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+100
by Mighty-Mogar
on 2023-09-07 08:11 -
+300
by Anna Omis
on 2023-09-07 04:21I would very much love to have an easier way to find people. I had difficulty locating someone who was literally sitting right beside me in person. We were a little frustrated. I also agree with the addition of the listing of premiere league members.
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+300
by A Beloved T-Rex
on 2023-09-06 22:46 -
+300
by Chrispy_0
on 2023-09-06 22:36I support any feature that makes it easier to find other worlds, authors, articles, etc. whether it is through better search functions or better ways for author's to get their work showcased.
Also, I don't even know who is in the premiere league except for a badge in their author's profile, and that requires checking everyone individually, so maybe having a list somewhere would be a good idea?
Also, the search bar itself in the world section does let you search by world name. Type in a word like soul and it will bring up every world that has the word soul in its name/description. -
+300
by Mochimanoban
on 2023-09-06 19:28 -
+300
by tlcassis
on 2023-09-06 19:24
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