Non-tag searches don't show an associated tag list with results

[Hawker2]

Server Software
about:
title: "MangaBooru"
theme: "danbooru2"
url: "http://manga.[redacted].com/index.php?q="

versions:
shimmie: "2.12.0-alpha-20240804-8a8d78a"
schema: 21
php: "8.2.20"
db: "pgsql PostgreSQL 11.22 on x86_64-pc-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 13.2.1_git20231014) 13.2.1 20231014, 64-bit"
os: "Linux ba1f0b4b30b9 6.1.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.99-1 (2024-07-15) x86_64"
server: "Unit/1.32.1"

extensions:
core: ["admin","alias_editor","bbcode","comment","download","et","ext_manager","four_oh_four","handle_pixel","help_pages","image","index","media","mime","post_lock","post_owner","post_source","post_tags","replace_file","setup","static_files","system","tag_list","upgrade","upload","user","user_config","view"]
extra: ["auto_tagger","autocomplete","bulk_actions","bulk_add_csv","bulk_parent_child","emoticons_list","et_server","favorites","home","pools","post_titles","random_image","random_list","rating","regen_thumb","relationships","tag_categories","tag_tools","tagger_xml"]
handled_mimes: ["image/jpeg","image/gif","image/png","image/webp"]

stats:
images: 308
comments: 0
users: 2

media:
memory_limit: "32MB"
disk_use: "138GB"
disk_total: "197GB"

thumbnails:
engine: "convert"
quality: 75
width: 190
height: 300
scaling: 100
mime: "image/jpeg"

Client Software (please complete the following information)

• Device: macOS 14.5
• Browser: Safari 17.5

What steps trigger this bug

1. Perform a search for a valid tag. Note that on the results page in addition to the thumbnails of the results, there is a list of tags to the left (Danbooru theme, perhaps others) of tags that apply to these results. This can be useful to narrow down a search.
2. Perform a search from the "Help" page that is not based on a tag (for instance, filesize, rating, parent, ratio, etc).

What did you expect to happen?
I expected the same list of tags that applies to the search results to be shown.

What actually happened?
The search results are shown (as in, a list of post thumbnails), but the tag list to the left side is not shown. I feel like this is either a bug (using an incorrect layout) or an oversight.

[discomrade]

Confirmed on default theme, using non-tag metadata queries in a search will prevent it showing the Refine Search block. It's not a layout issue, the feature currently just looks at tags. (I haven't looked into this code before and it's a non-trivial fix so I personally won't be able to look into this for a while.)

[shish]

Marking as a feature request since it wasn't intended to work that way and hasn't in the past, but I do see the value in it -- but I'm not sure how it could be done without melting the database server ^^;

[smokiemario]

Just wanna say, this is also a feature I would be interested in if you did end up finding a way to add it

[Hawker2]

I feel for you - so often things look simple on the outside and are a nightmare to implement due to hidden constraints. If it's eventually doable then I'd love to see it, but also totally understand that this isn't the simple thing I thought it would be.