Riot, I know you don't like GD much, but PLEASE give us a Search function.

Ouroboro·10/21/2014, 7:30:46 PM·45 votes·5,157 views

Searching topics in GD is currently impossible, yet you give us a search bar in the first place. It's EXTREMELY misleading, and frankly, it sucks ass.

It's extremely infuriating to find older posts on GD, because you can no longer search them up in the first place. Literally the ONLY way to track a thread on GD is by posting on it and tracking yourself, which is absolutely ridiculous.

For example, I was looking for a thread that gave downloads to different forum color schemes. I know someone made it, but I can't use the search function to find it because search includes EVERY forum EXCEPT GD. So you know what I did? I went into EVERY SINGLE THREAD ON GD. EVERY SINGLE ONE. UNTIL I FOUND HIM.

EVERY SINGLE ONE ON THE FRONT PAGE AND HOPED TO GOD THE CREATOR OF THE THREAD WAS IN ONE OF THEM SO I COULD TRACK HIS THREAD. Eventually I found him, but why are you making us find posts like this? Riot pls.

34 Comments

Tamat12/5/2014, 11:16:13 PM5 votes

As a team, we're pretty unsatisfied with the quality of our current Search functionality. This is something that we're planning to rebuild long term. For now, it's not great, but it's better than nothing at all.

Having said that, GD not being included in the list of Boards you can filter in the Search bar isn't intentional, it's an oversight. I've submitted a ticket for our engineers to look into how difficult it would be to add that in. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Devourer10/22/2014, 1:00:13 AM4 votes

Is it just me or is Boards a lot less interesting than GD? I feel like everything fun was taken out and all that was left was the all to serious posts.

The Red Warden10/22/2014, 3:59:32 AM2 votes

Well that means actually working on stuff for the GD community Riot- "we don't do that"

Kat Head12/5/2014, 11:20:45 PM2 votes

Better late than never, thanks.

B3ER10/22/2014, 10:36:04 AM2 votes

Ouro, you're getting something wrong here. Boards wasn't supposed to make the experience better for us, it was to make the experience better for them. Riot is more and more becoming a selfish and shitty company and we can't do anything about it.

Daen10/22/2014, 6:55:27 PM2 votes

To be fair, searching on the rest of the Boards isn't exactly robust either. :P

But yes, I agree. It's pretty weird that the GD board is missing so many things that the rest of the platform has, and search functionality is one of the fundamental elements of forums [users, content delivery/management, content retainment (search), etc.].

Kira Onime10/21/2014, 7:40:52 PM2 votes

Worst case they could just include a search specific to GD.

Jamnon10/22/2014, 3:40:18 AM2 votes

"Sorry you dont like it" - love Riot.

Wasted Smurf10/27/2014, 4:31:16 PM1 votes

The fact that they haven't corrected this by now is infuriating. It shows they don't have Red members reading GD. Its such a quick fix too which has been noticed many times before you.

Lets actively bump this into heaven with 1000 pages until they take notice.

Wasted Smurf10/27/2014, 4:31:50 PM1 votes

Rito plz

Wasted Smurf10/27/2014, 4:39:08 PM1 votes

Bump. Please please please please please. I even made a thread about this.

ModEvangele10/29/2014, 6:52:47 PM1 votes

Nami I am bumping this because it is a function that needs to occur, or they need to completely delete GD.

Guiotine10/30/2014, 5:42:23 AM1 votes

Search function for both GD and Red tracker confirmed for "being looked into" by Pendragon.

Ouroboro12/5/2014, 9:16:15 PM1 votes

bump

Kats Pajamas12/5/2014, 11:34:23 PM1 votes

Google ---> "[topic name] boards lol"

Ouroboro1/6/2015, 6:18:24 AM1 votes

Still waiting babes

Ouroboro10/23/2014, 1:31:27 AM1 votes

Bumping.

Ouroboro10/23/2014, 3:00:44 PM1 votes

Probably because GD calls Riot out when they make a mistake. Meanwhile Reddit literally kisses the floor they walk on.

I love Riot, don't get me wrong, but the bias towards Reddit is blatantly obvious. Just look at this god damn layout.

And for everyone claiming "No, GD is just toxic and full of porn!" That's because Riot refuses to give us decent moderation. Do you think I want those threads of porn in GD? Hell no. If you're going to force us here, don't repeat the same mistakes you made on old GD and actually help us.

I'm guaranteeing down votes for this post.

Commando Yi10/24/2014, 6:21:53 AM1 votes

idk how you guys still post here

i haven't posted here in weeks, it just isn't fun anymore

jaymc113010/24/2014, 12:55:13 PM1 votes

Yes please riot. Give search function now. Us needs it.

Ouroboro10/25/2014, 5:06:10 PM1 votes

Bump. Seriously Riot.

Ouroboro10/27/2014, 10:17:41 AM1 votes

Bump.

lostbob11710/27/2014, 3:47:33 PM1 votes

Yes, and make the Red Tracker work with it.