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Well, I originally tired it in a remix of one of yours, I don’t remember which one.

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Of note: should WF/W.a ever get native search, please don’t do it like this Glitch kludge where you can’t link to search results. Linking to search results is a must-have.

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Definitely agree with you there @bix! What is the Glitch app that isn’t linking to search results? Are you referring to this one?

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Any of them. I’m talking about how the search results page is still just that base search URL, which means you can’t give someone a link to that search.

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Meanwhile I have just discovered this search is not picking up all relevant posts. Not sure why, but there’s no question it failed to find a particular post that does exist.

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Got it! Great find on the search result link by the way. I was able to change it so that now you get a sharable link for a search result like this. Still needs a little work though.

I am curious about the search not picking up all relevant posts. It just looks up the query within the text rather broadly (even within words - which should change honestly). What was the query and particular post it failed to pick up?

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If you search for

kickstarter

two posts should come up, only one does.

Also, how do I incorporate your search-results-have-a-URL fix into my remix?

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So, I think that there’s a cutoff somewhere and either the Glitch app or the Write.as API is not searching the entire database of my posts but only back some number of posts. I think this because in the time since I first asked about missing results I have posted several more posts, and now no results return when searching for ‘kickstarter’. @matt?

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Hey @bix, I think I found the problem. The Glitch app was not searching the entire database of your posts. It was set up to run through a blog programmatically, grabbing posts for an assigned number of pages (10 posts per page).

Initially, the app was set up to look through 50 pages - 500 posts. Your blog has 531 as of now, so some posts didn’t make the cut. Hence the missing results.

I bumped up the page count for you so that you don’t have to worry about that cut off again. Now the ‘kickstarter’ results show.

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