i apologize if this has been suggested before or if it's not possible to implement, i couldn't find anything relating to it when i went looking~
i want to suggest a search feature for the item archive, to make it easier to find items in there. at this point, cs has been running for so long and there's so many items that the item archive is hard to navigate if you're looking for a specific item but don't know the exact year or month it's from (say, you're looking to search up the dates of items to see if a trade is fair). or if you see an item used in a dress up and know the item name would include "crystal" but don't know anything about when it's from. as of right now, the easiest way to search the item archive (imo) is command f (on mac) or control f (windows) and use that as a keyword locator on every month of every year until you find what you're looking for, but that's still quite the process to go through just to find one item! it's a lot of clicking and if you really don't have a clue which year or month your item is from, then you could be searching a while (it starts to really hurt my wrist lol). I also don't know if a command/control f equivalent exists on mobile devices.
adding a search feature seems feasible to me, as items (unlike pets) have names in your storage and in the item archive that could easily be searchable.
ideally, i would like it to work similarly to to the search feature in our personal item storage where it pulls up each individual item that has what you searched for, but i understand that the layout of the item archives is different and may not allow for that (as it shows the items together in their sets and it may be coding-intensive to have the archive search for the item and separate it from it's set to show). I'd also be perfectly happy with it just searching for whatever key word or phrase you type in, and only showing the item sets in each month/year that that word or phrase appears in (and highlighting it), similarly to how the current filters in the archive already work. just something to make it a little easier to find items, please lol.
i also would not like it to work like the search feature on forums. if i search up "Nostalgic Dog Plushie", it should only show me items that have that full phrase in it, not every single item that has "nostalgic" "dog" and "plushie".
thank you for reading! :3