Searching on Community is Poor - How can I Improve This Experience?

There are search results beneath the filters, and advanced search is at the bottem, albeit with large search results its difficult to get to.    There is no out of the box solution for this, you would need to customize the widget to get the experience you personally are looking for for your community.

I have filed a bug top review the Advanced search:

Patrick M. said:

There are search results beneath the filters

I'm glad you can see that's a problem.

Is there not a way to customise the appearance of these filters? Because the search results are in such a small window here, it's crazy.

The problem's the same here too:

Why can't there be an out-of-the-box solution for this?

Aren't there implications for customizing an out-of-the-box widget that causes issues when upgrading the platform?

You have to modify at least the Css and/or the html, both of which are modifying the widget.  The only implication is the possibility that new items/fixes are added to a widget in an upgrade.  In that case you can choose to revert the widget to the new default, merge the change in to your widget, or if its not relevant to your customization, do nothing and the widget will function as it did before the upgrade.

You have to modify at least the Css and/or the html, both of which are modifying the widget.  The only implication is the possibility that new items/fixes are added to a widget in an upgrade.  In that case you can choose to revert the widget to the new default, merge the change in to your widget, or if its not relevant to your customization, do nothing and the widget will function as it did before the upgrade.