I am one of the organizers for the Spokane (WA) group on groups.drupal.org:
https://groups.drupal.org/spokane-wa

At our group meeting today, we had a new person (brought in by a colleague) and I mentioned our group. Because the URL is a bit odd to remember (I didn't invent it), I suggested going to groups.drupal.org and searching. Imagine my surprise when I wasn't able to find our group through a search!

First, I used the main search box on the site. I typed in "spokane" (without the quotes). I got 108 hits for a bunch of posts containing this keyword, but at least in the first page of results, the group itself was not listed. There was also no way to filter to Groups.
https://groups.drupal.org/search/site/spokane
Hm.... After paging through a bit, I did find that our group is in the results, but it certainly isn't in the first page of hits.

Then, I clicked on Groups in the main nav, and tried the same search there. That yielded zero results.
https://groups.drupal.org/og/all?keys=spokane
I also tried this with "Spokane" instead of "spokane", in case capitalization was an issue, but still there were no results. I also tried searching for "seattle" and that didn't work either. Nor did "documentation", and I know that group exists too.... so I think that Group search is just plain broken.

This is kind of important... there are at least hundreds of groups on groups.drupal.org, and someone would want to be able to find one that was of interest, without going to Google or something like that. So, marking this Major.

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jhodgdon created an issue. See original summary.

jhodgdon’s picture

Priority: Major » Critical

I just ran into this again today. I went to Search and put in "libraries" and it did not find this group:
https://groups.drupal.org/libraries

I suggest removing the keyword search filter on that page until this is fixed, because it is very misleading to come up with no results -- makes it seem like there are no groups matching your interests!

mpp’s picture

I can confirm this is still an issue.

ebrittwebb’s picture

I rediscovered this problem recently. I went to the Groups page, and I could find the Boston group in the list filtered by Geographical groups, but when I add keyword boston, the search comes back with result "No groups". I'm amazed this hasn't been fixed yet.

Are there any plans to fix it? I will need this functionality in a new site I'm building, which I mention in this post, so if no one fixes it sooner, I'll be fixing it there sometime in the next few weeks/months and could contribute the fix back to Project OG for use on GDO.

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Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.x-dev
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