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Jan 29, 2015 11 years ago
Ferinsy
will put a spell on you
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Nicki Minaj

With the new item typing recognition on the user shops search, we are allowed to search words or part of words out of order or even for the item description. Okay, that's awesome... But with that, we were privated from the best features that the system allowed: the scrolling bar to see ALL the items with the words we typed and the alphabetical order. Now, we just see X items, randomly. If there are more items, you need to be more specific. That totally screw up doing Item Scramble (only thing I noticed it ruins so far).

For example, I got "enreG inacoCl nermOant" to unscramble. English isn't my 1st language, so it's kinda hard to do that game. I just assumed the 1st word as "Green" and the last one "Ornament". Then I typed "Green C" on the ushops search as I was used to in the old system and only got "Green Crystal Ornament" related, but it's obviously not the answer. Luckily, I knew the other word: "Ornament". So I typed "Green Ornament" and could assume it was "Green Conical Ornament".

Okay, my example failed, right? Wrong... Imagine if you're on a special round (6 items in 60 seconds). And you get A MINION to unscramble (or a 2-words items where you only know one of them). That's tricky, right? Yeah, but if you get "bAblbweu" (Abwubble) and you're totally lost, but you kinda recognize that MAYBE "bble" could be a part of it, you could type it and see all the items starting with "A". Then you type it and you get this: (items starting with "Ble" or "Bale" - the new system also recognizes some typos you could commit -, nothing with "bble") (note: got "Ble" items, then the BALEen Book, back to "Ble" items, "BILE Pinwheel Pastry" and back again to "Ble", what makes me think the new system is totally random, if it "thinks" you typed wrong and it could be "ble" or "bale", it should at least separate: first "ble" and then "bale" items, not mix them)

[edit] Conclusion: the new system is really awesome, but if we could get back at least the alphabetibal order (and, hopefully the scrolling bar), it'd be perfect. Also a good improvement could be searching in the middle of the word (the old system did that), like the "bble" example: it just searched on the beginning, not even "bubble" items were shown. I saw somewhere saying that refreshing would allow you seeing new items, but I tested with "bble" and "Red C" and I didn't saw anything different in plenty times.

Jan 29, 2015 11 years ago
Solsticesprite
cleans up nicely
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I fucking hated the item recognition, my spelling is good and I know damn well what I am searching for. I am glad it is GONE. I was hoping the entire thing would be lost and gone forever, but some of it appears to be back, alas.

Item Scramble IMO, this game isn't a test to see if you can use the Search function of Subeta. There's no reason the whole Search feature of the site needs to be warped so users can play it wrong.

Jan 29, 2015 11 years ago
Lirikai
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I still can't figure out how to make the search dropdown appear yet. I'm sure it's some deficiency on my end (lol) but I dunno, I miss it. I can't figure it out.

Edit: If I ever do manage to make it appear, I'd like it to be alphabetical too.

Jan 31, 2015 11 years ago
wordless
is INCONCEIVABLE
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I would like the scroll bar part back and alphabetical order please, the new way is annoying.

[tot=wordless] 10-14 PET range items!

Jan 31, 2015 11 years ago
Sopheroo
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Hyacinthe

The old item recognition broke the servers, according to Keith.

Feb 2, 2015 11 years ago Official
Keith
is sweet
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Eradication

The scrolling wasn't good for the servers, it pulled down a ton of data and had no caps. This one is smarter and pulls down what you're (hopefully) looking for a lot easier.

Unfortunately that means that it can't be used as easily to do the item scramble but that was never actually an intended feature of this anyway.

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