Discussion Search showing woefully incomplete results

[MarcellPerger1]

Discussion Type

Bug

Discussion Content

When I search for my discussions in this community I get one result¹ even though I have much more discussions authored:

(link: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions_q=author%3AMarcellPerger1+sort%3Atop)

But I have the following discussions authored which just aren't showing up (even though I've selected All):

• Github website is very slow on all pages #200750
• Overly frequent action major version updates #200765
• [Feature request] Add a `depends-on` keyword to set issue blocked by #172494

See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/212447#discussioncomment-19488013 for more testing trying to narrow down the issue.

Footnotes

1. (probably will be two after I post this, with this discussion and the other one in the screenshot attached) ↩

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[XY-code1]

The three direct discussion links are good controls. Compare the same author search with sort:top removed, then try the global Discussions search with repo:community/community author:MarcellPerger1. Finally search a distinctive title from one missing thread in that same scope. If the title matches but the author query omits it, that narrows the report to author filtering or sort behavior; if neither matches while the direct URL opens, report it as a search coverage issue rather than a missing discussion. Include the exact queries and which IDs each returns.

[MarcellPerger1]

The only thing that seems to have those discussions is the default discussions list with no manually added filters.

Search in Github Community

Github Community discussions author:MarcellPerger1 doesn't have them: (link)

Github Community discussions with search for issue title doesn't have it: (link)

Search in all discussion

All Discussions with no additional filters does have it (just the default author:MarcellPerger1 in the search) (https://github.com/discussions)

All Discussions with manually entered author:MarcellPerger1 doesn't have them (link)

All Discussions with search for the title doesn't have it, I looked though the 7 pages of results (link)

Conclusion

I assume somehow their general filtering is broken (perhaps it only looks at a subset of all discussions before applying filtering, perhaps those older discussions are no longer in their index?)

[XY-code1]

Thanks for testing both paths. The key repro seems to be that the default Discussions list includes #200750, but manually entering the same author filter excludes it. The default list is a useful workaround for now, and that side-by-side comparison gives GitHub a concrete case to investigate.