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Search modes
The forum search supports two different modes which may yield different search results. Try both to see which you prefer.

Natural language mode searches posts by matching words in your search query with words in the post content. Relevance is determined by the number and similarity of the words. You can sort by relevance or by post date. Natural language mode supports the use of quote marks to group words together: a sentence enclosed in "quote marks" only matches when it is found exactly as written.

Natural language mode may ignore words in your search query in these cases:
  • The word is too common (e.g. "the", "some")
  • The word is too short (< 3 characters)
  • The word occurs in more than half the posts in the entire forum (in this case it is considered too common and does is not match any post)

Natural language mode does not support boolean operators (see boolean mode below).

Example query: button "play video action" will find posts that contain exactly the phrase "play video action" or the word "button", and rank results better (more relevant) if both are present.


Boolean mode supports the addition of boolean operators such as "+", "-" and "~" to your search query which can be used to finetune your search result by for example excluding posts that contain a certain keyword. Furthermore, you can use * wildcard operators.

Boolean mode will still exclude keywords that are too common ("the", "some") or too short (< 3 characters).

Available operators are:
  • + operator (e.g. "+button"):
    the word "button" must be present in the result.
  • - operator (e.g. "-button"): the word "button" must not be present in the result.
  • ~ operator (e.g. "button ~timer"): the word "timer" may be present but these results will be ranked lower than posts that do not contain "timer".
  • * operator (e.g. "button*"): will match words that start with "button".
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