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Fix: Search page improvements#709

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Fix: Search page improvements#709
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@zoro11031 zoro11031 commented Jan 16, 2026

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Improves how search results are displayed:

  • Reorders search categories to Movies → TV Shows → Episodes → Collections, surfacing the most commonly searched content types at the top.
  • Adds a new "Combined search results" preference in Advanced settings → Search. When enabled, shows all results in a single list instead of separate categories.
  • When Seerr is active, adds Library/Discover tabs to switch between local library results and Seerr discovery results.
  • Hides empty result categories instead of showing "No results" placeholders.

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Code auditing and PR description drafting with Claude Code. Also used Claude Code for the regex.

@zoro11031 zoro11031 force-pushed the fix/search-results-order branch from c571a69 to 92659d1 Compare January 17, 2026 04:26
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Just curious on the use case for combining results. Is it just a personal preference?

The reordering is a good idea. I don't know why I put collections second.

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Just curious on the use case for combining results. Is it just a personal preference?

Pretty much. I've noticed that some streaming services split results into categories, and some mix them all together. Plex mixes them all together by default but has a tab to switch to the category view.

For me personally I prefer combined because when I'm searching I generally already know what I'm looking for, my search is going to closely match the title, so I prefer it to be the first result regardless of what category it falls under, if that makes sense.

@zoro11031 zoro11031 changed the title Search page improvements Fix: Search page improvements Jan 24, 2026
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That makes sense. What do you think about adding a "View Options" button (like on library pages) on the search page and having the toggle there instead? Maybe to the right of the search text box? I'm trying to keep the settings pages from being an endless list of toggles.

For the combined results, I think putting them in a CardGrid would be better than a single row.

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That makes sense. What do you think about adding a "View Options" button (like on library pages) on the search page and having the toggle there instead? Maybe to the right of the search text box? I'm trying to keep the settings pages from being an endless list of toggles.

For the combined results, I think putting them in a CardGrid would be better than a single row.

Yeah, both of those thoughts make sense to me. I remember you're pretty wary of adding more toggles to the settings menu, haha.

@zoro11031 zoro11031 force-pushed the fix/search-results-order branch from d020078 to 5cee096 Compare February 4, 2026 15:19
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zoro11031 commented Feb 4, 2026

@damontecres Just finished up with the changes based on your review. I moved the toggle from the settings page to the search page, applied the relevance scoring to both search options, and switched the combined results to show using cardgrid.

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