The search bar in https://www.worldanvil.com/p/desktop mode is completely unusable because it is returning results sorted by "updateDate" rather than how closely the result matches the search term. This makes the search totally unusable for finding articles by title if you haven't recently updated them. It's so frustrating to have 5 different articles with "Captain" in the title and for 0 of them to show up in the dashboard search results. Conversely, when I click "View World" and use its search bar, the search works perfectly and articles with my search term in the title ALWAYS appear FIRST.
Here is an imgur post with a video and additional screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/R32c0ds 1. Go to https://www.worldanvil.com/p/desktop 2. Click the Search icon or Ctrl + K 3. Open the browser console and click on the network tab 4. Enter a term that is in an article title that hasn't been updated in a long time (preferably a term that appears across many articles). In my world, I searched "Tournelle" and expected the 4 articles with that term in the title to be at the top of the results list. 5. See that the results are in update order, and (depending on the term) the article with the term in the title is not even visible in the result.

await fetch("https://www.worldanvil.com/api/internal/aboleth/world/search?id=db8e5425-5c36-47e4-b003-0f48403821c6", {
"credentials": "include",
"headers": {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:143.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/143.0",
"Accept": "application/json",
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
"content-type": "application/json",
"Sec-Fetch-Dest": "empty",
"Sec-Fetch-Mode": "cors",
"Sec-Fetch-Site": "same-origin",
"Priority": "u=4"
},
"referrer": "https://www.worldanvil.com/p/athena/article/5a15b01a-81ca-417d-aa00-0fad3c3cd5ad/edit",
"body": "{\"term\":\"tournelle\",\"sortDir\":\"DESC\",\"sortBy\":\"updateDate\",\"limit\":20}",
"method": "POST",
"mode": "cors"
}
8. Click "View World"
9. Filter your network URLs for "article"
10. Enter the same search term in the world view search box
11. See that the top results are articles with your search term in the title (aka, what you would expect from the dashboard search)

await fetch("https://www.worldanvil.com/api/worlds/db8e5425-5c36-47e4-b003-0f48403821c6/articles?term=tournelle&type=advanced", {
"credentials": "include",
"headers": {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:143.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/143.0",
"Accept": "*/*",
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",
"Sec-Fetch-Dest": "empty",
"Sec-Fetch-Mode": "cors",
"Sec-Fetch-Site": "same-origin"
},
"referrer": "https://www.worldanvil.com/w/lies-26-liability-grimmoireproductions",
"method": "GET",
"mode": "cors"
}
Hello grimmoireproductions, thanks a lot for the detailed report! We had a look and the issue was down to some parametrization being done out of order on the backend. You should now see this issue resolved. Happy WorldBuilding!