Just checking if the search function is working properly. I failed to find a musical friend I know is on here using parts of what I recall as their screen name so... I just did another little test on my phone and searched for "char" "charl" and "charli" and none bring up our longtime FAWM friend @charliecheney. Fortunately, if I remember how to spell his whole first name "charlie" then he's finally included in the results.

Just one test (and I figured he wouldn't mind me naming him here as a test). Thanks charlie! :)

Bug or function?

@johncrossman Have you searched for "ridonkulous cheesehead rapper"?

Trying now.... it worked! 😀 🧀

@johncrossman proof yet again that @burrsettles is magical.

Good point. We currently don't do prefix matching, which is why you couldn't find @charliecheney with your searches. From what I look it shouldn't be hard to add.

On the flip side, the search understands English. So if you search for "running" you will find a song with "ran" in the title, which is cool IMHO.

@elesimo I don't even understand English half the time, so that is very cool imho as well.

I think the site redesign is amazing through-and-through. It feels so clean and functional and fast to me. Really great.

A big, yes, please to prefix matching for the search box, or a few stiff drinks to get the search box to relax, so for instance if I just remember that @billwhite51 starts out with @billwhite I could find him...Interesting, I autocomplete pops up in the comments boxes, but search doesn't like to presume....Maybe autocomplete could get me all I need.

Yeah, how else can I make sure I find and listen to an all-nancy band?! 😁
https://write.fawm.org/songs/16704

Awww - Thank you @johncrossman
One more example of yearning for a relaxeder search box. For the skirmishes, now that I've cracked the code of how they're named (a date, how did I not notice this????) it would be so cool to just search for 022723
and have all the variations come back - with or without letters before and behind, capitals or not.....

Having the searched item remain in the search box if no matches are found would be nice. It's easier to understand why it didn't work if it's still there to look at, and it's easier to fix a typo if it's there to be edited.