At 1/29/24 02:39 PM, TomFulp wrote:
Clicking the magnifying glass in the header has traditionally submitted whatever search term is in that text box to the left of the magnifying glass. What was the extensive criteria you're thinking of? Is it something you recall being there in recent years, or all the way back with older layouts? Older layouts had options to choose between stuff like movies / games / audio, where now it defaults to whatever hub you are in (or does the everything search).
From my experience, especially since I learned it from you, Advanced Search (the "extensive criteria") is activated the moment you click the magnifying glass as long as you're in one of the portal sections.
When I was streaming Newgrounds daily, all I had to do to get to Advanced Search in the audio portal for "frontpaged commercial use permitted" music sorted by most recent was press the magnifying glass while in the Audio section and editing the dropdown menu as needed.
This was consistent (and habitual) until a year ago when I started focusing on my real-life experiences and couldn't spend as much time online as I wanted. The "NG Artist Fundraising PARTY" being the last time.
I haven't checked or used it in a long time, and now it requires the workaround I just explained, and I'm using Chrome as a browser, so that could be the problem.
I don't plan on changing my browser, either.
I did notice that if you click the magnifying glass without any search terms while in the audio section, it defaults to a sort of greatest of all time list, where other sections default to empty results.
Going to the audio portal by default, it shows me "Featured" as usual, as it always has.
I am not having this experience when I press the magnifying glass to go directly to Advanced Search without typing in terms, though. I get the "Tags: [input box]" "Please enter some terms." instead.
The reason I said I learned this from you was because way way way way way way back when I had my first interaction with you in the NGP server, when I was just an audience member, either you or Josh brought up how to get the advanced search and it blew my mind because I never knew it existed.
I've been spreading this information to willing and curious newgrounders ever since and projecting how easy it is to get right to what you would want or require from the NG audio portal uploads.
I'm tinkering with the advanced search and it's letting me get various audio results without having a search term, although I know I have run into situations before with advanced search where I needed to start with a search term... Maybe I just happen to be hitting things just right at the moment.
Last year was the last time I used it. Literally around this time.
I streamed every day for almost three months, and then kept a decent schedule for silly things since that day forward, but I could always rely on the consistency of the Advanced Search, and now it's consistently telling me to type in a Tag or Search Term before I can do anything else if I try to go directly to Advanced Search via the magnifying glass.
I'll see if it's still doing this as the months progress, but for now, it's feeling bugged and not being operated as it originally was intended (because it was so convenient and great) and now I gotta explain the workaround for anyone it doesn't work with.
I'm hella guessing it's just the browser, then, especially if it works for you. (or your admin privileges)
and then it's consistent with deleting the "terms" or tags in that box (whatever it is you searched for to get the setting wheel for advanced search) that it completely collapses afterward and won't work if you don't have something in that form.