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

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. 馃槖
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PirateMonkeyCabinet36-40, M
Oh my fucking god! I guess they realized people were doing that instead of using the feed, so instead of fixing the feed they just destroy our alternatives. Why fix a problem if you can force people to just use the broken thing?

It bloody worked yesterday. Can't help but wonder, is it because people used it to prove to others just how bad the feed was? Bad look for them if people do that?

I've tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, but for someone who supposedly has a long time in the industry this is seriously bordering on incompetence.
helenS36-40, F
@PirateMonkeyCabinet Some minutes ago, they disabled searching for "And" too (upper case A)
PirateMonkeyCabinet36-40, M
@helenS Just read that after replying. I understand that they can't please everyone, but this just shows they are actively trying to make it hard for people to use the site in a way that actually makes sense to users.

If you are not a power user there is a high chance you are stuck with a shitty feed and all you can really do is complain, which always falls on deaf ears. If you are a power user you at least had options, which they are now actively removing and thus making power users too have to resort to the same shitty feed... so all we can really do is complain, which again always falls on deaf ears.
helenS36-40, F
@PirateMonkeyCabinet I'm tired from all this sh*t I have to say. 馃槙
PirateMonkeyCabinet36-40, M
@helenS Aye. The only reason I haven't left long ago is because I haven't been able to find any alternatives. But at this rate it will soon not be viable for any of the things I have been looking for in this place.
Oster1M
@PirateMonkeyCabinet Are you the one that brought up the "And' search , days ago?

I tried to search your profile and it was inconclusive. The guy, I was referring too?馃槉
PirateMonkeyCabinet36-40, M
@Oster1 I know I've brought it up a couple of times during the last few days, but I'm fairly sure I'm not the only one. I learned it from others way back shortly after they introduced the new, awful feeds and it is something that has been brought up regularly by people ever since.
Oster1M
@PirateMonkeyCabinet OK. Thank you, for working this! 馃槉