The issue with the search box isn't relevancy, it's that there's no other way to sort the search results when you use the simple thread-restricted version in the corner. Here's the result from one of our more popular queries:
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The dates of the posts are completely haphazard. An answer from 2019 isn't necessarily going to be the same as an answer from 2022. There's no way (that I've found) to re-sort or further filter search results, which drastically lowers the effectiveness of a search engine. You'll often have to go through several pages to find a relatively recent post and hope that someone was kind enough to provide an answer at that time. This isn't Google and there aren't static webpages with answers or a clever algorithm that can guide you to one; searching a question will only provide you with the question itself. Sometimes its more efficient to just throw the question out there again rather than trying to ferret out the information you need.
This is why it's important to provide helpful answers rather than insults, rudeness, or passive-aggressive FAQs, particularly when most of the time the answer can be a simple "Yes", "No", or "We don't know when the next update will be". It keeps the thread brisk, reduces toxicity, and you get that simple satisfaction that comes from helping someone out. Teaching a man to fish is a noble goal, but as someone who spent far too long in higher education I can attest that nobody appreciates the effort unless they're trying to become fishermen.
Because sometimes people aren't necessarily as observant as we'd like them to be