issue: searching for help from the coded editing page passes the information as a hyphenated string rather than how most of the posts are titled in forums. it doesn’t seem to search forums with / for hyphens.
one must unhyphenate the string to find forum postings on it - prior to understanding this, I was attempting to create a form posting when the “recommender” would show topics that were similar, always showing the exact thing I was originally looking for.
steps to reproduce:
will be using this in example below: Search results for 'learn-basic-javascript-by-building-a-role-playing-game - Step 127' - The freeCodeCamp Forum.
- enter incorrect code to solve challenge (a few times until the Help button appears)
- click Help
- when “Ask for Help” prompt appears, click on the underlined link “check if your question has already been answered on the forum”
- this brings you to a forum.freecodecamp.org page that’s automatically searching your issue as learn-basic-javascript-by-building-a-role-playing-game - Step 127.
the issue being automatically searched does not bring up any instances of forum topics as they are not titled in this way but in this way: learn basic javascript by building a role playing game - Step 127
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search for the topic after the page tells you there is no previously asked, similar questions so that the link to “create a new topic” appears.
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(last step in order to realize) copy previously searched, hyphenated string into topic creation title form - there are forum topics but only once one attempts to “create” a topic that it’s able to search properly.
there seems to be some sort of disconnect between the two searches happening. I believe that this could be easily solved if the link being passed from the coding page to the help page was formatted without hyphens like below:
search?q=Learn%20Basic%20Javascript%20by%20Building%20a%20Role%20Playing%20Game%20-%20Step%20127
I do not see this as a real issue but more a quality-of-life improvement. please let me know what other information I can provide. thank you.
