Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-10637-20190709170455/@comment-10637-20190709183705

Apologies. I sometimes forget there aren't a lot of older people around anymore.

The way search works on Fandom has evolved over the years. Originally, when the end user entered text into the search bar, they had the option of GO (which would take you directly to the article matching the query) or SEARCH (which would produce a list of results from the wiki's database with options for multiple namespaces, etc). This method is still observable on Wikipedia's monobook skin

If you go to Special:Preferences, and navigate to the UNDER THE HOOD tab (as illustrated above), there's an option to default to the GO option described in the previous paragraph. Currently, and as a new development just today, this is not working.

My request to the community is an attempt to ascertain to what level this malfunction has spread.