Mention and search for 2 letters
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Mention and search for 2 letters
Feature Upgrade · Articles & templates · Created by ddaniel
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search mention dictionary letters conlang
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
When using search or the mention system results only start showing once you type at least 3 letters. The suggestion is to lower it to 2, which might be more resource intensive on the user while typing, but sometimes it's required.How does this feature request address the current situation?
Currently I have had this issue in 2 places, one was trying to find or mention an article "Ki", which is 2 letters, and is an official thing in D&D. The other one is a more serious, but also more niche use case which is the conlang dictionary search. There are many words that only have 2 letters, such as: as, is, on, in, me, if... etc. Currently it's impossible to find these in custom dictionaries. Although for dictionary use the 1 letter search would be best.What are other uses for this feature request?
Another suggestion is that maybe this can be a world setting. I am aware that 90% of the users won't need this feature, so the slower mention or search functionality would be an issue for them. This could be a world setting where someone could choose the starting letter count of searching (maybe a dropdown so they can't type in -1) from 1 to 3.Follow up
Fair enough
The Team's Response
no on this at this time
Current score
2/300 Votes · +240 points
Votes Cast
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-50
by Vertixico
on 2022-04-10 19:50Expanding the search to two letters instead of three actually is already a huge strain on the search functionality and will slow it down significantly. Even if we calculate your "90% of users won't use it" the impact will still be larger than that. The many 2-letter words coming up in normal sentences are in fact a huge counter-argument against two letter search indexing - because the information is basically worthless. Three letter indexing suffers from similar problems, but less so and is already a compromise.
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-10
by SoulLink
on 2022-04-10 19:42This is the reason that you can set tags for articles that are picked up by the mention system. Just set a unique tag for these articles and search them by that. I guess for the Dictionary this could be useful.
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+300
by ddaniel
on 2022-04-10 19:17
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