Thread:Jenburton/@comment-1474707-20120501004213/@comment-1656630-20120501205026

Hi Acer,

The feedback you and others have been giving us is great -- it's clear and specific, and it outlines what your concerns are. (The bug reports you sent via Special:Contact were especially useful.) We pass that feedback to the development teams, and they consider it along with the other factors they need to address. Every project at Wikia is a work in progress with moving pieces.

At this time, the teams have determined that the release needs to remain as is, but we have plans to fix some of the details around it. For example, we broke the "go" button on Monobook (that was very unfortunate, and it's coming back). It's also not possible to get to Special: pages via the search field, and we have plans to make that possible again. And we recognize that redirects are a huge priority for you guys, so we have plans to improve results to make the behavior of redirects clearer, and to also add them into Search Suggestions.

At the same time, we're also tackling many (many many) back-end issues around how we handle search. We're well aware that search result quality has been poor in the past, and that's part of why it hasn't been surfaced for users. We want to make it better.

The transition isn't going to be seamless, and we appreciate you helping us find the bugs. And thanks again for taking the time to give us your input.