See above.
Just noticed that Tags are case sensitive, our game appears when you search for "mahjong", but not if you search for "Mahjong". This is neither in the interest of devs nor players.
I added the Tags
mahjjong and mahjong a few days ago when I noticed that using the variant with 2 g's was probably not the best choice for findability, and I could swear that it didn't showed up in the night when I searched for "Mahjong" but showed up when I searched for "mahjong", now I don't find it with either variant (maybe I clicked on the linked "mahjong" tag and thought this was producing the same result as searching for it - I noticed now that this isn't the case). However: the mahjong tag is there for a few day - shouldn't the game be found when I search for "Mahjong"? Same for "Mahjjong", btw.
what are you talking bout?
Your game shows up not matter how lower or upper case one writes your tags. Tags that are not in list from browse feature you have to write in, and not forget a letter.
Your game also shows up ify ou put mahj in search box.
You would not happen to put tags in search box, would you? how that works, I do not know. It finds mostly by title and maybe some part of game description and maybe other stuff. Ifyou search for Mahjjong you find a game that does not even have jj anywhere. But it has tag mah-jong, so maybe the - is indexed differently for this search thingy. For some terms, the serach box even brings backtags as an answer. I think only for tags with descritipion.
Also keep in mind that the thing does not search live. It has an index somewhere that does not get updated every second.
But it is poorly advertised that you can write tags in the tag serach box. But i wolud not write masomethingsomething in there. I would write mahj or majong in search box and go from there.
there are two search boxes
one is a real search box
the other is a box to add tags
the tags add url modifier in browse, and you combine them. they are not case sensitive. this is not wikipedia.
tags are tags and not search terms. you can tag stuff that is not written anywhere in the desciription, because it is attributes of the game, that you think do apply. like singleplayer, puzzle, board game. Of course if you tag mostly descriptive stuff, you will most likely write it in description of game too.
if i "search" for single player board game, i get 60 results
if i combine tags single player and board game i get 421 results
hmm. it could be better.
if you search for "official" tags, for lack of a better word, those come as a result as well.
but you cannot search for custom tags there. you have to put it in the tag-search box.
mahjong is not an "official" tag. try with chess to see the difference.
so maybe idea would be to make custom tags searchable in search box, should there not be a reason to not have it so. (there might. key word spamming is tactic in search ranking optimisation.)