New in Tender: Enhanced Search

It’s true. Until now, Tender’s search capabilities have been in need of some work. Over the weekend, we deployed the first major update to overhaul the search system.

Design-wise, we didn’t like how the search was so comment-centric. Searching for anything that matches anywhere in a comment body will now return the whole discussion just once. You can also search for names and emails to pull up discussions that the user has participated in.

Also, we wanted the search to be unified on a single page. You can now search Discussions, FAQs, and users (if you’re a support member) from a single page. We’re working on a proper FAQ + Discussion search (heavily weighted to prefer FAQs) as well.

On the backend, we’ve added filters for searching just the title or by discussion state. We’ll also be adding filters for the published/updated dates, as well as configurable sorting.

Please check out the updated search and let us know how it works out for you. If you have any feedback, please let us know on http://help.tenderapp.com or ping us on twitter.