search filter issues

Stream: Zulip meta

[Jireh Loreaux]

When trying to search for profiler, the semi-recent changes to search filters is being quite difficult. For instance, searching for "profiler" takes forever (it seems to just hang for me), whereas searching for profiler returns a bunch of results with file in the name because it considers these words to have the same stem :man_facepalming:

Are there any decent solutions to this?

[Eric Rodriguez]

at least we can search for "unit" now! (that used to be stemmed as "un - it" and "it" was deemed common and ignored)

[Tim Abbott]

We didn't make any changes to the search backend in the search pills transition, just the UI; I think what probably happened is we upgraded the base OS and that came with a better set of definitions for this. I can reproduce the hang, which is puzzling; I'll make sure that gets investigated.