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alumasquirrel · 08-09-2018

I'm cross-posting this from Q&A, since it took ~24h for it to post, and as far as I can tell nobody has read it. Looking around these unsearchable, slow forums, I don't think anyone will mind if I add a trifle more clutter. When searching for items, ...

alumasquirrel · 08-07-2018

When searching for items, using the price sorting function reduces the number of results. For example, if I search for something incredibly vague like "lathe tool" with the default "Best Match" sorting, I get 27369 results. If I sort by price (either...

alumasquirrel · 08-12-2018

That's very interesting. Adding the dummy exclusion seems to correct both the sorting behavior and the filter behavior. I wonder why that works. I was wondering if it had something to do with a sorting routine terminating early, but it doesn't misbeh...

alumasquirrel · 08-12-2018

I guess I spoke too soon. Now the behavior happens even worse. No matter the sorting method, the number of results is erroneously small. Repeating the same query over and over returns a small, but random number of results. The price filters are also ...

alumasquirrel · 08-09-2018

I purged cookies and logged back in to test the behavior, and it seems to be working now in all three browsers. The count difference between "best match" and price sorting is negligible.Repeated queries do not differ significantly anymore.The incorre...

alumasquirrel · 08-09-2018

It seems if I enter the search repeatedly, I can occasionally get a different random number of results. Using the same query in my example, I can get random numbers grouped around 20, 40, 70, 840, 1200 when price sorting is active. It's not predictab...

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