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Filtering on Looking for Group page

While searching for a campaign, I noticed that the filtering system doesn't bring up every campaign that contains my search text. For example, I was looking for a Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game and only found one game. It wasn't the one I was looking for, but I joined it anyway :). The one I was looking for has Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game in its description, but it never showed up even just searching the word "basic". Is the filtering system based on the tags used or does it search the description. or is there a toggle you can switch off that prevents it from showing up in the search?
I believe it searches for Tags. and If someone were to use "3ed" or "3rde" as a tag, while you type "3e" neither of them will show up in your filter. If would be nice if there was a Tag list of all current campaign tags in use. so you could open them in new tabs while going through the list and then check the tabs of all campaigns that are using said selected tab.
I've been curious about this as well because I was looking for ANY groups playing shadowrun just to measure the gauge of activity and when I search for shadowrun I get nada.
Maybe they should create toggle-able tags that you just click when you create a lfg post so that people can find it easier, or perhaps a series of subforums for each system
can't it search the campaign description
<a href="http://app.roll20.net/lfg/search/" rel="nofollow">http://app.roll20.net/lfg/search/</a> The subforum is deprecated at this point, It's left in there for people who would prefer to use it, but any new development will go towards the official tool.
What kind of development is in the works for "looking for games". I imagine with 55,000+ members there must be hundreds of campaigns yet when I search for "Dungeon" I get 3 hits. "Basic" gets 1 hit. "RPG" gets 2. Even "D&D" only gets 7. "Pathfinder" gets you 14. Actually, I just went and counted the non-filtered list and their were 93 games. So not really a lot to filter :) so searching tags might not be missing much, yet. And I think it only searches for upcoming games. But if this site becomes as popular as it should (its an awesome platform) being able to search tags and the game description for past and future games will be a big help.
I've been looking for my own game (that I created and listed in LFG) and neither I not my friend can find it anywhere in the LFG listings. Even searching specifically for the title or one or more tags turns up 0 results.&nbsp;
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Gauss
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Brian, I have responded to you in the bug report thread you also posted in. - Gauss