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Maybe I'm missing something with the 'improved' search, but if I'm on the Skyrim Special Edition page and I search for a mod, I don't want to be shown mods for every single game on the site. I know I can filter it, but surely it should default to the game that you're currently on. It's just more clicks to filter out stuff I have no interest in.

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  On 4/3/2025 at 8:34 PM, JobiWanUK said:

Maybe I'm missing something with the 'improved' search, but if I'm on the Skyrim Special Edition page and I search for a mod, I don't want to be shown mods for every single game on the site. I know I can filter it, but surely it should default to the game that you're currently on. It's just more clicks to filter out stuff I have no interest in.

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I think a lot of people would be far less annoyed at the new search window if your current game button was the default.  Being bombarded with irrelevant information feels awful.

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  On 4/3/2025 at 9:26 PM, carpesangrea said:

I think a lot of people would be far less annoyed at the new search window if your current game button was the default.  Being bombarded with irrelevant information feels awful.

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If you are on the Skyrim SE page, it should filter by this game.

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  On 4/3/2025 at 8:34 PM, JobiWanUK said:

Maybe I'm missing something with the 'improved' search, but if I'm on the Skyrim Special Edition page and I search for a mod, I don't want to be shown mods for every single game on the site. I know I can filter it, but surely it should default to the game that you're currently on. It's just more clicks to filter out stuff I have no interest in.

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That's what it does.  If you search for "witcher" from a Skyrim SE page you get content from Skyrim SE (plus a list of games at the top if you are on "all content").  If you've set "mods" as your default search, you get Skyrim SE mods containing the word "witcher".  If you are set to "all content" then you get six games related to "witcher", a bunch of Skyrim SE mods related to "witcher", some Skyrim SE Collections related to "witcher", some Skyrim SE images related to "witcher" and some members related to "witcher".

If you're not getting that then your page is broken and you should be investigating why it's broken.

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  On 4/3/2025 at 9:48 PM, Demorphic said:

If you are on the Skyrim SE page, it should filter by this game.

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Regardless of what page you are on, you get search results from the "all" tab.  The whole point was the "mods" tab should be the default so you aren't getting a bunch of useless information cluttering the search page like other games, usernames, screenshots, etc.  Ideally we would be able to pick whichever tab we wanted to use as the default, but having the default always be giving you absolutely everything is grossly unnecessary and likely information overload for a lot of people.

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  On 4/3/2025 at 9:58 PM, carpesangrea said:

Regardless of what page you are on, you get search results from the "all" tab.  The whole point was the "mods" tab should be the default so you aren't getting a bunch of useless information cluttering the search page like other games, usernames, screenshots, etc.  Ideally we would be able to pick whichever tab we wanted to use as the default, but having the default always be giving you absolutely everything is grossly unnecessary and likely information overload for a lot of people.

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You can change your default quick search category to be just mods:
 

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  On 4/3/2025 at 10:01 PM, Demorphic said:

You can change your default quick search category to be just mods:
 

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Must have missed it last time I checked the preferences page, but that's good to know.  Now if only the "Default Search View" option on that same preferences page was functional, because right now all 3 options "big tiles", "small tiles" and "list view" all give the same big tiles.

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  On 4/3/2025 at 9:48 PM, Demorphic said:

If you are on the Skyrim SE page, it should filter by this game.

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Maybe it 'should' but it doesn't. I was just on the Skyrim SE page, hit 'jester' in the search and I got results for all games. Of course I selected the game from the left to filter it, but that's an extra step that wasn't there before the 'improvements' to search.

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  On 4/3/2025 at 9:51 PM, showler said:

That's what it does.  If you search for "witcher" from a Skyrim SE page you get content from Skyrim SE (plus a list of games at the top if you are on "all content").  If you've set "mods" as your default search, you get Skyrim SE mods containing the word "witcher".  If you are set to "all content" then you get six games related to "witcher", a bunch of Skyrim SE mods related to "witcher", some Skyrim SE Collections related to "witcher", some Skyrim SE images related to "witcher" and some members related to "witcher".

If you're not getting that then your page is broken and you should be investigating why it's broken.

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My default is set to mods but a simple one keyword search from the Skyrim SE page shows me all mods for all games.

Not my job to investigate why it's broken, is it?

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