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Can search once again be made to allow for the colon character to be used in a search please?

Prior to the great update to searching you put out, I could include a : in the search term and I would often use it to find posts of videos based on the duration of the video as the duration gets added to the post title.

This was very reliable for finding videos as people tend to [edit to not hurt feefees] insufficiently title their posts and videos can be impossible to find based on what they are actually about, so going by how long I knew a video to be helped a lot with finding videos.

Since the update to search was made, I've made several searches for videos by duration and was presented with zero results for the term. As it wasn't an error and was saying there were no results, I didn't think about it further. However, I did a search for a video duration of a post I knew existed and search would not find the post despite its title including the duration of the video and my search matching this duration, thus this report.

e.g.

A post titled "They've Long Since Said The Quiet Part Out Loud [1:39]" (https://poal.co/s/WhiteGenocide/690482) Searching for "1:39" would *previously let me find this video post based on its duration as it isn't titled in a way that notes who is in the video or what it is about. I know at least one other version of the video has been posted that is 1:35 in duration, but I can't find the post for it as I can't search for videos by duration currently. (I commented with a link to the 1:35 clean version I saved from a post in 2021, but I can't find that post to link to it based on searching for its duration.)

Can search once again be made to allow for the colon character to be used in a search please? Prior to the great update to searching you put out, I could include a : in the search term and I would often use it to find posts of videos based on the duration of the video as the duration gets added to the post title. This was very reliable for finding videos as people tend to [edit to not hurt feefees] *insufficiently title their posts* and videos can be impossible to find based on what they are actually about, so going by how long I knew a video to be helped a lot with finding videos. Since the update to search was made, I've made several searches for videos by duration and was presented with zero results for the term. As it wasn't an error and was saying there were no results, I didn't think about it further. However, I did a search for a video duration of a post I knew existed and search would not find the post despite its title including the duration of the video and my search matching this duration, thus this report. e.g. >A post titled "They've Long Since Said The Quiet Part Out Loud [1:39]" >(https://poal.co/s/WhiteGenocide/690482) >Searching for "1:39" would *previously let me find this video post based on its duration as it isn't titled in a way that notes who is in the video or what it is about. I know at least one other version of the video has been posted that is 1:35 in duration, but I can't find the post for it as I can't search for videos by duration currently. (I commented with a link to the 1:35 clean version I saved from a post in 2021, but I can't find that post to link to it based on searching for its duration.)

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[–] [Sticky] • 1 pt

I just fixed the regex to ignore special characters

It should be working again.

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Thank you AOU.

I just did a search for "1:44" for the duration of a video you just posted about 20min ago:

NSFW Graphic Thanks jews for importing these feral niggers. [1:44] https://poal.co/s/Niggers/690651

It would not find it.

I thought it might be because it is NSFW, so tried searching for "1:13" for a non-NSFW video you posted:

Cuomo is asking “Why do we care who is in Jeffrey Epstein’s list.” [1:13] https://poal.co/s/PedosExposed/690628

It still isn't finding it.

I tried other durations from other posted videos and it has not found any.

Search seems to be excluding the attached duration part of a post title from its search as it still finds posts that have that "1:44" as part of the actual title.

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You have to use brackets (full words).

The search doesn't look for partial keywords to save on resources.

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Oh man. I didn't think about the brackets as being part of the duration "word". I was thinking of the interior of the brackets as being a word that was then surrounded by brackets.

Thank you very much for noting that and for making that change to it to allow this kind of searching again!

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Feefees because you don't like the video title? Lol

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No. The edit was not to spare your feefees... The title of your post I included isn't too bad. Most "quiet part out loud" post titles are obvious that the post is of a kike openly stating they are genociding Whites.

I linked your post in my post as the example of the video I couldn't find the post for that I was searching for. Your post was included as an example of what led me to find I could no longer search by duration. I linked the 1:35 clean version as a comment on your post, but I could not use search to find the post I had saved it from to include a link to it as well.

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I've now edited the post to move my reference to your post as being after my story about not being able to find a post by duration instead of before and closer to the "insufficiently-titled" part of my post. Maybe it is now more clear that it was what led to my discovering the issue instead of seemingly like you are the one I made the feefee edit for. Sorry.

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No worries at all my friend.