barmar, on 2017-June-21, 08:49, said:
The order of results is:
Username is the search string
Search string is a prefix of username
Search string is a prefix of real name
Username sounds like search string
Real name sounds like search string
Username or real name contains search string
So if you remember the name correctly, the result you would have gotten with the old system will be at the top of the list.
Username is the search string
Search string is a prefix of username
Search string is a prefix of real name
Username sounds like search string
Real name sounds like search string
Username or real name contains search string
So if you remember the name correctly, the result you would have gotten with the old system will be at the top of the list.
This simply isn't true. If I search for 'barma', the first person is a username named 'BarMa' (correct). The second is a username 'Brownm' with real name 'Janice Brown' which implies the second step in priority is being skipped entirely. barmar doesn't appear anywhere on the list at all.
If it worked as described above it would be far better. Though I think Levenshtein distance would be an improvement over sounds like.