OK this one worked:
So the problem is with the SNaa.bb format in my other post?
That’s actually a good point, let me think about it.
No, that should be fine. i think the problem is on our end, I think the search index or something is not working 100%. We just launched it yesterday! @blake, can you look into this?
And from the Contents page? E.g. from:
http://suttacentral.net/dn
it would be nice to be able to browse for suttas that have tagged discussions etc.
Not sure about this. It could overload the page; it might increase loading time a lot, not sure.
On the one hand, it would be nice to have a place that was for discussions about the division as a whole; someone might want to talk about the Nidana Samyutta, for example. On the other hand, maybe we should keep it simple, and just let people search for things like that on Discourse. SC isn’t meant to be an interface for Discourse, we just want to make the connection.
We might let the current implementation settle down and see how the feedback and usage goes before pushing it any further.
Dear Bhante, dear Blake,
just to let you know and in order to link my post with the original conversation: I experienced the same issues as @mikenz66.
Since, you are aware of this issue already, feel free to ignore that post… 
With much mettā,
Robert
A few details for @blake
I’ve tweaked the CSS for the Discourse results. Overall I’ve made it a little more compact and balanced.
Thanks for hiding it in the Templates folder, that gave me a nice little hunt! Just wondering, is there any sane reason why this isn’t in, oh I don’t know, stab in the dark, the CSS folder, perhaps?
For filtering, we still need to narrow results for the exact ID, so MN2 does not grab MN21.
Also, can we exclude results based on category, such as this Dev category, or more generally, the Meta category?
As time goes on we might want to weight results by Likes or something. Currently, how are the results sorted?
Is there a problem with the Discuss & Discover feature? I currently don’t see links from any sutta…
Hmmm, I manually regenerated the search index and the results are back, I’m not sure quite what went wrong though.
In fact it seems to be working instantaneously!
Is there a reason why the Dhammapada verses don’t have this feature?
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Is it possible to make this feature work in the titles?
I notice that in posts like this:
by @Russell I can’t easily get to MN95.
(Whereas having typed it up here ^ I can get to it easily.)
In the links I added I simply copied the title into the body, which then made the sutta labels active, but one could argue that that approach adds clutter.
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I concur with @mikenz66. It’s not easy to link without having to type the ID onto body of the post.
To help out and minimize the trouble for you, would you like posters to type the ID on the body?
with añjali and mettā,
russ
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Thanks @Russell. I think it’s good to clarify the best and/or most efficient way of setting up things so that the site works well.
I agree, the automatic linking should work from the title, hopefully this is possible.
Discuss & Discover and Textual Details options inside the sidebar on a sutta text page aren’t there for any language except English
is this a part of the design?
i’m trying not to dare to presume that their accessibility could be useful for readers of other languages as well
Yes, I think it’s just an oversight
On a related note, would it be OK to post Essays/AV in Chinese, or is it best to keep things in English for now? For example, Chuang Ch’un-chiang 莊春江, many of whose Chinese translations are on suttacentral, has written guided readings of 12 MA suttas and 20 SA suttas.
I suppose in the future one could do something clever with tags so that you can choose whether or not to see Discourse posts in other languages.
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