Search in category names and descriptions

[madarche]

Hello

Is there any reason why nodebb-plugin-dbsearch doesn't search in category names and descriptions?

Thanks

[barisusakli]

What's the use case? All the category names and descriptions are visible on /categories so you can use browser search on that page.

[madarche]

Thanks for your reply @barisusakli

The main usecase I'm concerned with right now is a forum for elderly or unexperienced users. These users can be taught to use the web site search (i.e. nodebb-plugin-dbsearch) or the browser search, but they can't be taught to use both the web site search and the browser search. They will remember just one of them. Really.

Another point that speaks for having search on categories too is that after a new NodeBB install+nodebb-plugin-dbsearch two experienced users asked me in a row why the search wouldn't return the categories they had just created. They were expecting the search to do so.