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Poster: alwen7 Date: Apr 23, 2024 7:41pm
Forum: general Subject: Search has stopped allowing multiple filters

I can't drill down through my results any more.

Example, I start from a search for "P T Legare", with quotes, and Search text contents checked.

This gives me 461 results, with a full left sidebar of filters:
Year Published, Media Type, Year, and so on.

Once I scroll down to Language and click French, all the other filters disappear. No matter how long I wait, or if I refresh or not, the rest of the filters never load. See screenshot attached.

This is happening both on my laptop and tablet.

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Poster: Jeff Kaplan Date: Apr 24, 2024 7:56pm
Forum: general Subject: Re: Search has stopped allowing multiple filters

i'm seeing 5 results for https://archive.org/search?query=P+T+Legare&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22French%22. all the facet filters on the left loaded fine.

possibly a glitch. possibly and incompatibility with your setup.

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Poster: OakTreeTavern Date: Apr 25, 2024 3:39am
Forum: general Subject: Re: Search has stopped allowing multiple filters

I use Firefox at home and the windows 11 default browser at work. Both have given me the" Your search did not match any items in the Archive. Try different keywords or a more general search." magnifying glass error message when clicking on your link.
This has become common. If it is an incompatibility issue can you suggest a browser which functions properly in a personal computer environment?

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Poster: alwen7 Date: Apr 25, 2024 4:43am
Forum: general Subject: Re: Search has stopped allowing multiple filters

Interesting.

This is my search link:
https://archive.org/search?query=%22P+T+Legare%22&sin=TXT&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22French%22

It is showing me 128 results, and only the filter I have checked (Language: French) appears in the left sidebar. I get the same results on my tablet and my lap top using Opera browsers on both.

I want to emphasize that I have not changd anything about my setup on either device lately, and this is new (mis)behavior from Search.

Also, 128 results I can scroll through, but another search I attempted yielded 770,000, and this single-filter bug only brought the number down to 700,000.

It's very frustrating, since only last week I was dialing searches down with additional filters with no problems.

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Poster: Jeff Kaplan Date: Apr 25, 2024 4:45pm
Forum: general Subject: Re: Search has stopped allowing multiple filters

my bad. did not notice you were doing a text search. i'll mention it to the team. thanks.

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Poster: alwen7 Date: Apr 29, 2024 3:28pm
Forum: general Subject: Re: Search has stopped allowing multiple filters

Thanks, I appreciate it! Looks like I can use multiple filters again!

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Poster: OakTreeTavern Date: Apr 24, 2024 3:27am
Forum: general Subject: Yes, Search has stopped allowing multiple filters

This has been happening with SEARCH for a while. I think there is a problem with whatever programing was recently changed, SEARCH now fails frequently for many reasons and after a few page-downs. Maybe the Internet Archive could return to the very useful pre-2016 version.

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Poster: alwen7 Date: Apr 24, 2024 9:47am
Forum: general Subject: Re: Yes, Search has stopped allowing multiple filters

I am only seeing this recently.

Last week, I could continue to select additional filters until I had useful results.

This week is the first time the search filters did this for me.