Hey all, made a fix for the shop search suggestions on Friday night. Does it seem to be better now? Let me know and I'll pass it along, thank you!

Thanks, passed it along!

Hey everyone, I just pushed out another update, but want to give some explanation as well.

Prior to these changes we were using a service to handle all of our search. That meant sending all item changes and updates to that service, and being charged for hosting it there as well. We frequently got out of sync, and also it was really expensive!

We switched to searching directly in our own database. I know that sounds simple, but doing "full text" search is a complicated, and expensive, computing problem. When you're searching for an item in that little dropdown, it has to search all of the items on the site to figure out which one you're starting to type. It should keep a list of those searches so it knows if someone type "nicol richie" it knows they're looking for .

Getting this right is important for bringing back forum search, and getting good search working for all of the other parts of the site.

I just pushed out an update that should 🤞 bring the search up to standard and we can start making improvements on it. Please let me know if you still have issues!

Yes, seems like it needs to only search public rarities. I've deployed a temporary fix for this, just to get those out of the search results for now. will be taking a closer look at that later - as well as working on some other improvements like only having it do the search if at least 3 letters are typed in the box. :)