Search by keyword: thoughts so far?

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The function to search profiles that contain (either in bios or sub-topics) specific keywords released to the public on the last update very recently. As expected, with its limitations for the second-hand virtual citizens of Slowly aka those who don't pay Plus: few searches per hour and only the first three profiles that match your search being shown, with the rest dimmed and blocked by the ominous paywall.

While it starts working funny whenever you utilize more than a single word, as I've seen it is prone to show you profiles that contain only one out of the two or more words utilized (f.e suppose my keyword was "aphex twin" - I might get a profile from someone stating "I've got a twin brother" or "fan of twin peaks"), I must admit that the overall results I'm seeing are quite good. Enough for someone like me, user that's been around the app for 4 or 5 years already, and with some strong opinions about the path that Slowly has taken in recent times, to start pondering if to pay Plus only to get the best out of it and get better cherry-picked matches that share certain overly specific topics I'm interested in.

How are you guys are seeing it so far? I feel like it's a huge upgrade on paper, even if I was expecting that it would've been too good to be true without limitations of some sort, was pretty sure it was going to be heavily Plus-limited :/ . But still, makes WAY more sense to me than all the functions that were relying on mere chance and luck in order to try and connect two potential penpals - never was a fan of automatch back in the day, neither open letters. The mere fact that now these two are co-existing with the manual profile search w/filters and now the keyword search feels super strange if I think about it.

Congrats to the folk that suggested it on the sub by the way, if I recall correctly the original idea was posted by some user here and it got picked up by the devs rather quickly

Posted Jun 4, 2026, 1:00 AM UTC

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