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From the search help: You can use m for minute, h for hour, d for day, w for week, mo for month, and y for year. It seems likely that users would want to use months more often than minutes in...
#1: Initial revision
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trichoplax
·
2023-05-29T02:46:54Z (over 1 year ago)
Reconsidering the shorthand for month in search
From the search help: > You can use m for minute, h for hour, d for day, w for week, mo for month, and y for year. It seems likely that users would want to use months more often than minutes in a search. Would it be more useful for "m" to mean month, and for minute to be the one with an awkward 2 character representation? Currently, this may put some users off by confusing them. ## Example A hypothetical casual search user, based on the in-page example `created:<1w` (without reading the search help), types `created:<1m` and expects to see the posts from the last month. Instead there are 0 results, because nothing has been posted in the last minute. This is a particular problem because the user has no way of knowing that there was a misunderstanding, so no reason to consult the search help. Instead the search appears broken, and the user stops using it.