Search

Andrei wants a hike for next Saturday but he has no idea where. He opens Search, types via ferrata, and gets back every upcoming activity that mentions via ferrata in title, description, or tags — sorted with the soonest dates first. He picks one near Brașov and taps through.

Search is a separate screen from Discover because it does something different: it scans the full text of every published activity and ranks the results. Discover filters the list you already see; Search finds what you didn't know was there.

How to start a search

Tap the search icon — it lives in the Discover toolbar and on the home shell. The search screen opens with the cursor already in the field.

Type and the results stream in as you type, debounced so you don't fire a query on every keystroke. Stop typing for a beat and the list settles.

What the query matches

Your query is matched against:

• the activity title
• the description
• the meeting-point text (place name, not coordinates)
• tags the organizer attached
• region/area name

It matches with or without diacritics. Typing fagaras finds Făgăraș. Typing via ferata (one t) still finds via ferrata because the index normalizes common variants.

It does not match:

• comments on activities
• private chat threads
• participant names
• past activities that have been completed (those are filtered out by default; flip the toggle if you want them included)

How results are ranked

Higher is better:

• exact title matches outrank partial description matches
• upcoming activities outrank far-future ones
• recent matches (relative to your local time) get a small boost
• only published activities appear in public search

For an organizer's own activities, drafts also appear in their search — but only in their session.

When the field is empty

Before you type anything, the search screen shows:

• Recent searches — the last few queries you ran
• Suggested keywords — a small set of common ones (popular regions, activity types in season)

Tap a recent search to re-run it.

Combining search with Discover filters

Search has its own scoped filters at the top of the results:

• Type
• Difficulty
• Date range
• Region

These are independent of the filters you set in Discover — leaving Discover filtered doesn't carry those filters into search, and vice versa. This keeps search results predictable.

Opening a result

Tap a row. The activity details page opens normally — see Activity details. The back arrow returns you to the search results with your query still in the field, so you can keep browsing.

When something looks off

• No results for a phrase you know exists. Try fewer words. The index is permissive but not magical — tura prin Făgăraș cu copiii is too specific. Try Făgăraș plus the Family type filter.
• An activity shows up with no description match. It probably matched on tags or region. The matching highlight (when present) shows where the hit was.
• Diacritic version of a word doesn't match its no-diacritic version. Should always match. If it doesn't, the index hasn't caught up to a recent edit — wait a minute and retry, or contact Support.