There’s a new thing in the filter box. It’s very multi-purpose, so hopefully it’ll take the place of any number of checkboxes that could have gone there. It’s a keyword filter!
Basically, say you want a place with an elevator, a doorman, and a patio, so you just type in “Elevator doorman patio”, hit the ‘set’ button, and then only listings that have each of those words contained somewhere (in the text of the listing page itself) will be shown. More terms will mean faster searches, since fewer results will be returned. Some are very slow, since they appear in tons of listings. I’ll be working on speeding it up, but I wanted to get this out there now so people could start using it. I’ve had this sitting on my development bench for over a month, basically finished, but not quite, and now that it’s done, I realize that it’s really freaking useful and it works exactly as I hoped it would, so I had to get it out there.
There will likely be an issue with the self-posted places and this, since a lot of them will probably have “Dishwasher: No” style feature lists. Hopefully I’ll figure out a good way to deal with that. I’ve got a few ideas, but I’ll work on those later if it actually becomes a problem.
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