Add subdomain filter capability in personalized search results

MYZuo

Hi Everyone! My first time posting here.

Currently users can block, lower, raise, etc., domains. It would be nice and more efficient to also allow for extending this type of filtering to subdomains as well. Particularly blog hosting websites such as weebly.com, wordpress, substack.com, etc...

Example:
Typically they come in the form of subdomain.domain.com so a user could apply a wildcard operator such as *.domain.com which would indicate they desire the filtering rule to apply to all subdomains. It could also be an option in the popup menu.

Vlad

MYZuo Not sure what the UI for this would look like in the "orb" menu but I see no problem with *.domain.com working in the settings.

z64

@Vlad After all feedback we've received on this, I'm wondering if we should:

Make adjustments apply to the top level domain including subdomains the default. This seems to be what most people want / is most useful, as you normally don't want to block just m.twitter.com for example.
If you want to get more specific and just adjust foo.bar.com, that can be a custom input in settings or checkbox "Apply to foo.bar.com subdomain only" when we detect a subdomain.

Vlad

Going with subdomain level blocking by default sounds like a quick way to achieve most of the want.

Jeff

Vlad

I suggest raising/pinning subdomains by default as well.

Maybe a bug report: I tried adding *.stackexchange.com to raised domains manually, but I get the error message:

Failed to add domains

MYZuo

For the UI it could be something as simple as a checkbox

z64

Jeff

I suggest raising/pinning subdomains by default as well.

Yes, the change will apply to all adjustment options.

JanPieter

-deleted, I thought this feature was still planned, not done-