v1.6: Proximity setting

[guimachiavelli]

v1.6: Proximity setting

[ManyTheFish]

Hello @guimachiavelli,
For now, the variants are attributeScale and wordScale, but I will change them to byAttribute and byWord because of the ambiguity of the suffix Scale, and its redundancy with the suffix Precision of the setting name.

attributeScale effectively disables the proximity ranking rule

not really. It reduces the precision of the proximity-based features like the proximity ranking rule or the phrase search, but they are not deactivated. The real effect is a trade-off that can be summaries as:
"""
do you prefer:

1. (wordScale) A higher precision when computing the distance between the matching query words (how many words separate the matching words?), but a slower indexing time
2. (attributeScale) Or a lower precision when computing the distance between the matching query words (Are the matching words in the same attributes?), but a faster indexing time

"""

[ManyTheFish]

Hello @guimachiavelli,
I've created the related specifications, which should be clearer than my prior explanations. I put the link below:
meilisearch/specifications#261

See you!

[guimachiavelli]

Hi @ManyTheFish—thanks for clarifying this, it's a lot clearer to me now. I'll fix the issue description.