Community search provides poor results compared to default WebUI

[popcar2]

When attempting to search for communities via Alexandrite, I get vastly different results compared to the default Lemmy website (and most apps). It doesn't seem to match my search term well, and doesn't sort by popularity. This happens when searching in general or choosing which community to post in.

Here's an example of searching "games" in alexandrite:

Most of these are unpopular communities, and the search failed to get the ones I'm looking for: [email protected] and [email protected].

Here's an example of searching "games" in the official UI on the same account:

The results are more accurate to my search term, and it seems to helpfully sort by popularity, showing me [email protected] on the top. I'm not sure why Alexandrite is providing different search results considering it should be the same API.

I find myself having to switch back to Lemmy to post or search for something, which is a shame because I loooooove Alexandrite.

[sheodox]

@popcar2 Sorry for the incredibly long delay, but this is going to be fixed in the upcoming release. I wasn't sorting by TopAll like lemmy-ui does.

[sheodox]

I also noticed when you're not searching for anything and it just shows your subscribed communities, the list was alphabetized case-sensitive, so lowercased communities were all at the bottom of the list. I fixed the sorting so lowercase things will appear alphabetized with all the others.