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How can I do a search across all of Codidact?

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I can't find a way to do a platform-wide search (all communities at once). Is there such a feature and I'm missing it?

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posted almost 3 years ago
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Unfortunately, we currently don't have a network-wide search engine. I think this is the first time it's been brought up.

If there's interest in such a feature, someone can write a feature request and it'll go through our process for handling those.

In the meantime, though, your best bet is probably an external search engine such as Google. You can use the site:codidact.com query to limit your search to Codidact results.

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tbmale‭ wrote almost 3 years ago · edited almost 3 years ago
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+1 for the site:codidact.com tip. It never comes to mind :)

Canina‭ wrote almost 3 years ago · edited almost 3 years ago
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I too was going to suggest using site:codidact.com with one's favorite search engine. (DuckDuckGo also supports that specifier.) Who knows, maybe it'll even bump Codidact just ever so slightly in their rankings?

Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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We have plans to allow refining the search on a particular community to either just this category or all categories. It seems reasonable to also allow going in the other direction (all communities, not just this one). All of this still needs some UX design, but let's consider it when we do the other search improvements.

manassehkatz‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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This feature should actually be easy to implement as long as we stay in a "one database" design (my preference but agreed quite a while ago that long-term we will have a database-per-community structure).

trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 year ago
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As mentioned, including site:codidact.com will return all pages on Codidact that match the search terms. This includes help pages.

For cases where you only want to see posts, you can instead include site:codidact.com/posts to show only posts, but from any community.

You can also restrict to one community in order to find posts using search terms that the current Codidact search does not support. For example, you can search Meta posts by including site:meta.codidact.com/posts. This allows working around bugs such as Codidact search not searching question titles.

I've only tested these with DuckDuckGo, but they may work similarly with other search engines.