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suepixels
Rising Hotshot
17 days ago

Simple Gallery Search Filters & Missing Features

I mean, this new search update is okay, I guess? I just wonder how efficient this will be. 🤔 Why does it seem to be so hard to add the following simple features?

I always found it weird that we cannot search simple things, which would make more sense for daily players, I think? Especially because the gallery has a ton of creations, but you always end up finding the most recent or the most popular. What about all the creations in between? So why can't we still, after 12 years of content, not search

  1. by year (would be so useful)
  2. multiple hashtags (for me, a must as you can only use one hashtag; we cannot combine them)
  3. by gender (when looking for a specific sim)
  4. by occult (yeah, logic right?)
  5. by life stage
  6. number of sims in a household (exists already 😮)
  7. number of bedrooms and baths (suggested by QueenSaraphine​) 👍
  8. search for words in the descriptions. (suggested by thornwill​ )😉

Missing Major/Useful Features 😅

  • being able to edit your uploaded HH / Lot Infos—especially if you forgot to add info or want to fix errors you made.
  • Adding Social Media Links on your Profiles to popular Social Media Platforms like YouTube/Instagram/Tumblr, etc.  (In times of Social Media? Come on!)
  • Extend word count for profile description up to 500 characters (at least)

I don't mean the hashtags, since a ton are mislabeled. 🙃What I wish is that the Gallery should be able to give me an output based on all the things I mentioned above as a filter. I wish I could search by more meaningful filters like these.

The numbers are all there—it just needs the filters and rules in coding (plus UI adjustments, of course) for those to show up and we could finally get the results we are looking for.

What do you think? Would such filters be more useful for your daily gameplay and save setups? If you had such options to choose from? 

6 Replies

  • To add to this: be able to search by how many bedrooms and baths in a residential lot.

    I did notice that you can now search by household size when looking for sims, so that point has been implemented recently :) 

    Personally don’t feel like the last three points are major missing features. 
    Totally agree with 1,3 and 4th point though. 

  • Is it just me they don't have an uncheck all packs option (with one click)? And I have to manually uncheck every pack?

  • suepixels's avatar
    suepixels
    Rising Hotshot
    17 days ago

    Whoa, I had no clue that you could search by household size? Whuuut?  I need to check that. 😅 Interesting, thanks for the heads up 👀. The features I mentioned maybe aren't major for some or mandatory for others.  But I can tell you how much I wish I could fix my errors or adjust some information after posting a creation. As it annoys me so freakin' much that I cannot fix/correct those errors unless I delete this creation, which I find quite inconvenient, especially if it's a popular lot. 🫠

  • suepixels's avatar
    suepixels
    Rising Hotshot
    17 days ago

    I assume that's their way to nudge us into the direction of "Well, if you don't have all the packs, you need to uncheck every pack manually, every dang time you search"—Of course, it would be way too convenient  for us to have that feature.  🙄 But you are right; I agree. 🧐

  • I'd also like to search for words in the descriptions. Sometimes people don't use hashtag but have descriptions that have key-words to what i want. Or if the shared item have nothing, they would get auto hashtags.

  • suepixels's avatar
    suepixels
    Rising Hotshot
    16 days ago

    With the new "SimsSearch/Crossword" search, it kind of does that, sort of! But I get what you mean; you are right. Will add your suggestion - thank you. 😌

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