User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-1630756-20120428184731

As objective as I'm trying to be, after using this for two days it's really proving to be one of the most intrusive updates Wikia have implemented that I can think of. This is especially annoying on wikis such as Runescape Wiki where people will often search for items using in-game slang terms. Yes, the redirects are there, but even as you've acknowledged they don't appear in the suggestions.

Personally I find this really disappointing, this is just yet another update Wikia has implemented, without a beta, which has proven to be largely incomplete; the idea that nobody took a second to remember that special pages and redirects don't appear in the suggestions is simply flabbergasting.

And yes, it is counter-intuitive and disorientating, especially for new users whose only exposure to wikis is probably Wikipedia (which has suggestions for redirects also). Do they do this at MediaWiki? No. Do they do this at Curse? No. Does the phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," come into mind? Because in this case it really should have done.