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I tried it with "best time tracking app for iOS?" and "I'm looking for a time tracking app. Any recommendations?"

Congrats on the attempt but it does still need some work.

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I'm not really sure your query is what it was built for. That's more of a google search than a community idea.

Not sure if you're familiar with reddit but question posts like that are incredibly common, especially in regards to technology questions and the like. It's still a forum when you get down to it so lots of people like myself post questions on niche topics because you can find small communities of experts on everything from dogs to obscure vintage computers.

Just saying, as a huge user of reddit - I'd expect the same as OP, those seem like reasonable searches to get those results.

I'm a long time redditor, and that's why I said what I did. I felt the took was more for finding your niche community than finding an answer to a question. Different interpretations I guess.

Which is a bit better! But still not perfect ;)

In my case the first sentence was the title and the second the body; I guess having the 2 together might’ve thrown it off. I didn’t know only one of the fields was actually required.

Good feedback. Indeed, it is not clear on the UI. The model concatenates the two, so not sure if changing the label "Message" to "Text" to mimic Reddit UI for text posts would be enough... Or rather just have a single "Text" textarea as for the model is the same.

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