pull down to refresh
This issue has come up a number of times now and makes it clear that user expectations for recent is that it'll be a strict recency sort order.
I wonder if recent searches should be keyword only, sorting all keyword matches strictly by date.
I vaguely remember that being the case before, but there was some other bug that made it too restrict thus often returning null results.
Yeah, I’d noticed this was happening before. I think your solution’s the best one. One rule in software is: don’t do stuff the user didn’t ask for.
I am for having that stricter search from the past. Makes searching a post about a certain thing on a common word harder for me. Also made me take extra steps when I need to do help/support replies about GrapheneOS as I didn't always see who was discussing at first.
It's a gaussian notion of recent - meaning it's biases toward more recent content but is not ordered strictly.
We did this because it's hard to maintain relevance and recency simultaneously. I'll create a github issue if we don't have one.
In the meantime clamping it by time, e.g.
1 weekshould help.