Hey Sprinters! We rolled out a new search backend today. This big win with ElasticSearch will allow us to greatly expand our search features in the course of the coming months.
In the meantime, our new search offers you some great immediate benefits:
- Items and comments are indexed within a second or two. This means searching for keywords and terms from newly posted comments, updated items, etc. will turn up results immediately.
- The Search field’s type-ahead will also return ALL results. We previously returned the top 20 hits and this may have inadvertently caused confusion.
- We’re also weighting certain fields. For instance, we “boost” title over description, which means items with “internet explorer” in the title will show up before items with that phrase in the description. Additionally, we’ve boosted Backlog and Current items over other items. We’ll be continuing to play with these weightings in the coming weeks.
We’re very excited about this first step towards expanding our search capabilities and look forward to rolling out more search features for our Sprinters.
You may learn more from our knowledge base article. As always, please contact us at support@sprint.ly with any questions.
