The trouble with searching for a video by duration has returned, but worse than before.

Example:

University of Waterloo discriminating against straight White males in federally-funded job posting. [9:02] https://poal.co/s/antiwhite/719646

This video has [9:02] in its title. Searching for "[9:02]" results in the colon being replaced with %3A in the search url and returns no results. &q=[9%3A02]

Interestingly, I used to be able to replace the %3A in the search url with a : and the search would find the video properly, but now it doesn't even find it with the correct : character in the search query.

I also tried removing the brackets and searching for just "9:02" and still received zero results with or without correcting the %3A to a : character.

Cannot currently find posts for videos by the duration in the post title.

I attempted to find this video, but was unable to find it by the duration and had to search for it by title and hope the post was titled as I recalled it being titled:

All rocks are my friends [0:15] https://poal.co/s/politicalhumor/606148

Searching for [0:15] or 0:15 returns no results with or without replacing the %3A with a : character in the url.

EDIT: Searching for images by dimensions still works properly with or without the brackets around the dimensions, but queries for image dimensions do not involve a colon character.

Results are still chronological? There aren’t any sorting filters (or I don’t see them) but I mostly use search when I’m trying not to post something someone else may have recently posted so I like it showing newest first.

Just some feedback for you in case you’re wondering how/why some of us search.