Plex Web 4.86.1 search changes hurt quick search

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Player Version#: 4.86.1

  • Search: Added search results page

The search results page is the “default action” when pressing enter. Previously I could refine my search terms to the point where the item I wanted to quickly navigate to was the selected option and I could press “enter”

Now the default selected option is the “Show All Results” page, which is generally not very useful due to it not being paginated, thus it’s not “all results”,

Please consider this alternative UX:

Instead of having “View all results” (again, this name is misleading, it is not all results, and will never be all results with out a significant refactor to the PMS search endpoint) have “Show More” Link to the full search page instead of expanding the results.

Changing this behavior hurt keyboard navigation by requiring to use the up/down arrows to select an item instead of simply typing in search terms.

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Hitting return and getting the full results page is actually the previous intended behavior. This was lost when search was redone some time ago. This new update just returns that behavior. Unfortunately, this will be an issue for your use case.

If you’ve refine the search so that the result you want is the top one, you should only need to press the down button once to get to that result.

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Thank you for your reply @MovieFan.Plex

I can certainly understand wanting to respond to user feedback about wanting a full page for search results. However I personally implemented the new search on Plex Web and was apart of the design discussions. This was an intentional deviation from how search previously worked.

Alternative UX could be considered to allow users who wish to navigate to a full page search result to do so, and there can even be a key shortcut to navigate to the full page search results.

Changing how quick search works yet again again with out consideration for how users may have gotten used to it already is pretty unfortunate, especially since choosing an alternative UX for how to navigate to the full page search results could make both camps happy.

Please consider forwarding this to whatever PM is currently owning search (if it’s still Jason, hi!!)

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Right, because there wasn’t a full page result so there was no other possible action for hitting enter.

Changing how quick search works yet again again with out consideration for how users may have gotten used to it already is pretty unfortunate

Understandable, but that’s unavoidable whenever there is a change or changing back in this case.

Please consider forwarding this to whatever PM is currently owning search

Will do.

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