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Within 4 minutes you received the correct reply: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/54264/search-doesnt-seem-to-work-on-area51/54265#54265 http://meta.sta
by df07 16y ago
Within 4 minutes you received the correct reply:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/54264/search-doesnt-seem-to-work-on-area51/54265#54265 http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/54264/search-doesnt-...
"how" and "to" are stop words, so they're stripped from your search.
In the tag box on the create new question form it tells you to use the tag "bug":
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
I have no idea why editing your profile failed, but it works fine for me.
Your accounts were not automatically associated because Area 51 is new and does not auto-associate with the other sites yet.
- wcarss 16y agoActually, that was not the correct reply - but it was a swift reply! I ended up using 'bug' and 'search' as tags. I've cooled down considerably now - but as a user, that was a terrible set of experiences that left me very frustrated. Even as a computer scientist, it left me asking myself why their product has been released with (what appear to me to be) major flaws. Edit: after manually associating my account on meta with area51, and trying for a second time on meta to change my profile name, it was successful.
- robryan 16y agoI know they're probably just using the same search all across the system but given the number of proposals you could easily drop the full text search and just do a simple by character one. "How to" would probably be a pretty common search for these proposals.