Dear Admins, Do You Really Want to Get Rid of Me?? 😕

In order to obtain a more or less complete chronological feed, I had bookmarked
"https://similarworlds.com/search-posts?q=[b]and[/b]"
which gave me every post that contains the word "and" (= 99% of all posts). I could live with that as a reasonable work-around.
Of course it wasn't perfect (there are some posts which do not contain the character string "and", of course) so I had also bookmarked:
"https://similarworlds.com/search-posts?q=[b]the[/b]"
and
"https://similarworlds.com/search-posts?q=[b]not[/b]"
It was an awkward work-around but sort of ok for me.

Those searches are no longer possible. All I get is
"Please add more relevant words to your search query."

"and" does not work anymore, but, lo and behold, "[u]end[/u]" works! ==> it's not that three-character strings are excluded from the search, but [u]specifically[/u] "and" and "the" and "not" (and maybe some more). ==> The admins are actively, [u]intentionally[/u] preventing us from using search engine tools as a work-around to get a complete feed.

As a result, I do no longer have a working feed. This is [u]catastrophic[/u]. You exclude me from enjoying other members' posts, and you exclude others from reading mine. This post will most likely be invisible to most users.

All I'm getting now is a tiny subset of posts which I don't have control over.

I don't get it. I do not understand your intentions. Why are you doing this? Why did you kill the only reasonable access to an (almost) unfiltered feed? What's the objective behind your decisions? What are you aiming at? Are you trying to attract a younger uneducated crowd perhaps? Are you trying to repel "power users"?

Really, I'm totally frustrated. Somebody is doing a bad job. 😒

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thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M

Newsgroups had more purpose than this place. I would say a lot of internet forums before social media held more relevance to culture than how social media wants to control social means now.

helenS · 36-40, F

@thewindupbirdchronicles I love the freedom of expression on this site, and I can't complain about that. It's just that I think the admins made some technically bad decisions.

thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M

@helenS Where I was talking about had that... never took means to try and arrange it. in fact, I'd suggest they'd never thought it was place for, or the means of how.

thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M

@helenS Even though I am here all the time. I liken that to an addiction. And I do have an addictive personality. I generally prefer a blogging platform, I find more that enriches me. Here, like any other social media instant chat platform, now seems to be fuelled by emotion entirely in need. I don't think they are this smart, but people seem to be very attracted to what angers them right now.... so.....?

helenS · 36-40, F

@thewindupbirdchronicles I am here less and less frequently, because I can't see most posts anyway. 😐

thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M

@helenS I get that. I sometimes read posts, and if we are just talking the structure itself, and think of expressing something, or don't have anything to express. In another moment I may have found a comment, but if I look for it I can't find it? Then an hour later it shows up again, so it was never gone. It was the maligned algorithim they are using. It's truly nonsensical, backwards, and idiotic. It's like they are taking a reverse approach, to me. Most sites/forums gear towards interests, they are removing those things, and trying to let an algorithm that doesn't work decide who gets along?