@michaelson and/or any additional admin willing to discuss
There's been multiple discussions, at various times, about the genre selection options. I understand there's technical issues in terms expanding the list. This isn't about that.
Now having watched the app for awhile, it's evident that instead of pushing content by genre on the home page, there's been a recent shift to featuring selections by curated thematic sub-genres. Clearly, you see value in not allowing the site to log jam under broader trends/fads and allowing room for more variety in classification.
Is there anyway to extend that into the on-site search engine by allowing creators to tag the entirely of their strips with sub-genre tags that receive priority in connecting readers to specific works in that sub-genre?
For example, currently if one types steampunk into the search bar it seems to prioritize by that word in strip titles first then creator's names second. There seems to be a much lower chances of finding the content by sub-genre content. I'm even unclear in how when you get to a sub-genre the titles are listed... there's dead strips higher on the list than active popular ones...it's a weird algorithm.
Similar issues arise when I enter anthology (which is, full disclosure, a priority to our group's strip). We're secondary to strips with anthology in the title then further down the complete search with no evidently reason for the ordering. The same occurrence happens with educational and other specific thematically searches.
Could there be a practical way to use the system as more that just a word search but a stronger sub-genre content search?