Weights ignored?

[thebrightsideofmathematics]

I've updated from 1.0.4 to 1.1.1 and apparently my setup with adding data-pagefind-weight="2" to different elements does not work anymore. My top results in the search are pages that should be low in priority since I gave them weights of 0.01. Did the version change something or is it just my machine?

[bglw]

👋 @thebrightsideofmathematics

Yes, the v1.1.0 release changed much of the ranking algorithm. You can see the release notes for this here: https://github.com/CloudCannon/pagefind/releases/tag/v1.1.0

I wouldn't expect the weighting to be quite as dramatically different in your case though — do you have a site you can share and I can take a look?

[thebrightsideofmathematics]

Thanks for the answer! That explains my confusion. I try to setup a short example! Is there a better possibility in the new release to put some pages low in priority?

[thebrightsideofmathematics]

I tried to create a minimal example but including too few pages didn't show the behaviour I noticed before. Indeed, in this case, 1.0.4 and 1.1.1 show the same sorting.

[bglw]

I'm going to look at the ranking again in an upcoming release, to resolve some of the current issues around lack of control. I'll update here when I do :)