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I found a new O'Keefe article I wanted to post. I did a title search of /s/All for O'Keefe, the newest entry found was 22 days ago,

So, not finding a duplicate, I posted my post - https://poal.co/s/BasedMedia/705833.

Later I review the /s/New page and discover this O'Keefe news item (from a different source) was previously posted 3 hours ago - https://poal.co/s/StateofCorruption/705807

... yet the search function missed it. Both titles contain O'Keefe but still the search tool overlooks them.

Any ideas? I figured the new page covered all subverses. Maybe the ' is screwing the search? The post from 22 days ago also has a ' and search found it, so that doesn't seem to be the case.

I found a new O'Keefe article I wanted to post. I did a title search of /s/All for O'Keefe, the newest entry found was 22 days ago, So, not finding a duplicate, I posted my post - https://poal.co/s/BasedMedia/705833. Later I review the /s/New page and discover this O'Keefe news item (from a different source) was previously posted 3 hours ago - https://poal.co/s/StateofCorruption/705807 ... yet the search function missed it. Both titles contain O'Keefe but still the search tool overlooks them. Any ideas? I figured the new page covered all subverses. Maybe the ' is screwing the search? The post from 22 days ago also has a ' and search found it, so that doesn't seem to be the case.

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[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Alright, I now know for sure what's the issue is here.

As of right now, there's a total of related 292 posts that contain that name in their title.

The problem is these posts are divided into two groups:

1. single quote '

2. apostrophe ’

They are two entirely different punctuation symbols. Single quotes are limited to one real function in written U.S. English, which is to indicate a quotation within a quotation. Apostrophes, on the other hand, are used to denote possessive form and to indicate omission.

That's why the search is only showing one group or another in the results depending on which special character you've been using in your search request.

I'll think about a solution later. Maybe searching for both in a search?

[–] • 0 pt

Great find!

I use a kbd application on the kindle. I used the standard character set unless the standard apostrophe is actually in the kbd enhanced character set... I used ' from my standard character set vs ` from the enhanced character set.

Just spent a half hour plus subscribing to 21 pages of the subs list so far. Still not done. A [Select All] option would be great, but when I'm done I don't plan on changing them. I wanted to subscribe to all of them in case there is anything there that can screw me up.

[–] • 1 pt

You don't have to subscribe to all of them, because if you do, your home page will end up being identical to all.

It's a waste of time and resources.

[–] • 0 pt

It's a waste of time and resources.

I suspected that but whereas I didn't spec or write the code, I wanted to eliminate any stray possibility that a lack of a subscription could impact me in any way. I live on /s/all/new all the time now since QPatriots was archived, haven't intentionally used the home button in years.

ASCII was easier to deal with when I was writing editors and interface code 40 years ago. Not used to being stuck at the user end vs the developer end ... retired now so I'd better get used to it. Thanks for chasing this down! It would have really bugged me if we didn't figure it out.