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.

0xbitcoiner

Your memory matches mine. In cases where there are otherwise no results, people want `recent` to be less strict. When there are many results, people want `recent` to be strict.

k00b

Searching on Stacker.news and ordering by "recent" - results are not in order

Signal312

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.
