[OTHER] Tag/Skill Search Limit on things under 3 characters

[Parsifal-M]

What would you like to share?

Hey Team! :wave:

First of all, a super cool project I like it a lot and have all my socials pointing to it :smile:

Just wondering as this is not really a bug nor is it really a feature request I am just wondering if there is a specific reason behind having a minimum of 3 characters needed for searching? I only ask because I added Go as a skill (or tag) and it will not let me search on it, but of course Golang does.

Not a major issue, I've always just referred to it as Go and not Golang, but it made me wonder if there is a specific reason other than maybe performance we set a minimum limit to 3 characters. :smiley:

P.S I could also see an issue here if, for example, you want to add C#

Thanks, Team!,

Additional information

Happy to look into this if we think it's worth looking into.

Thanks!

[github-actions[bot]]

It's great having you contribute to this project

Welcome to the community :nerd_face:

If you would like to continue contributing to open source and would like to do it with an awesome inclusive community, you should join our Discord chat and our GitHub Organisation - we help and encourage each other to contribute to open source little and often 🤓 . Any questions let us know.

[ManishBisht777]

Good point @Parsifal-M. maybe we can make calls only when the user stopped typing and remove the text limit

[eddiejaoude]

Good spot 👍 no reason, just a short term solution to improve performance. The use stops typing is probably a better way (but still with a minimum of 2 characters otherwise there are too many results)

[ManishBisht777]

limit 2 doesn't show tags with c language

[Parsifal-M]

Not had much time to dive into the code for this, but based on a very quick check in the UI I can see that when you click on a tag it just performs a search on an entire profile for the keyword so I select Rust I could get the result of Mr John Rust who does not have Rust listed in their profile at all.

I wonder, and again I've not had much time to look into this :sob: would it not be better to implement that tags only search for other tags? so if I hit Rust or Go it would return profiles with Rust or Go in their tags?

Just an idea :smile:

Let me know what you guys think!

[Aadarsh805]

Adding the functionality to search by pressing Enter key might also work if you wanna force a search

[eddiejaoude]

I wonder, and again I've not had much time to look into this 😭 would it not be better to implement that tags only search for other tags? so if I hit Rust or Go it would return profiles with Rust or Go in their tags?

Yep currently it searches both, an optional radio buttons could be added like all, tags, name

Adding the functionality to search by pressing Enter key might also work if you wanna force a search

Yep enter could trigger the search

[EmmaDawsonDev]

A debounce function might be more useful than the minimum 3 characters

[Parsifal-M]

Hey Team :wave:

Some great ideas above, I have some time this weekend to try and play around with this, I need to set up my local dev environment first. I will report back to see if we can figure out a smart way to do this :smile:

Thanks, team!

[ManishBisht777]

I want to work on this

[SaraJaoude]

@Parsifal-M did you manage to get your local environment working? If so we can assign this to you (if not, @ManishBisht777 do you still want this?).

Probably best go with the debounce solution that Emma suggested.

[ManishBisht777]

@Parsifal-M did you manage to get your local environment working? If so we can assign this to you (if not, @ManishBisht777 do you still want this?).

Probably best go with the debounce solution that Emma suggested.

i am up for it if no one is working on this :)

[Parsifal-M]

@Parsifal-M did you manage to get your local environment working? If so we can assign this to you (if not, @ManishBisht777 do you still want this?).

Probably best go with the debounce solution that Emma suggested.

Hey! :wave:

I assumed @ManishBisht777 was working on this as he asked to, so I will help out if needed :smile:

[ManishBisht777]

@Parsifal-M did you manage to get your local environment working? If so we can assign this to you (if not, @ManishBisht777 do you still want this?). Probably best go with the debounce solution that Emma suggested.

Hey! wave

I assumed @ManishBisht777 was working on this as he asked to, so I will help out if needed smile

lol, I am waiting to get assigned. anyways love to work on this, @Parsifal-M will let you know if I need help :)