Extending search functionality

I, and I believe quite a few others would extremely appreciate if you would add a functionality to search by a number of episodes. For example - all dramas with no more than X number of episodes, or all dramas with more than X number of episodes.

This has been requested 3 years ago and in the comments, an administrator said it will be added in the next search update, but 3 years later and hasn't happened. Here's the previous thread: http://mydramalist.com/discussions/support/6413-se...

I don't know what this forum's back end is written in but either way, this should be a really quick functionality to add support for.

For example, now I am looking to find dramas with a lot of episodes, 50+ or 35+, but it is nearly impossible because for each drama with 35+ episodes there are 15-20 dramas with 20 or so episodes, which are short and I do not what to watch sometimes. And to pick a drama you sometimes go through 20-40 of them until you find what you want to watch. So I basically have to go through hundreds of pages just to find 10-20 dramas with 50+ or so episodes for example, which is extremely exhausting. And I might be missing some other dramas with that number of episodes since I never reach it in my search.

So I would extremely appreciate if you could please add this when possible. Thank You.

Edit: Looking at it, easiest would be to add ascending/descending sort by to already existing sorts. Since a number of episodes are retrieved and being displayed in search results anyway, this would be minimal change, few lines of code, 1-2 hours work not more. I appreciate it could be more complex than simply that if you cannot push the feature changes whenever you like, and if you need to add test coverage and make sure no bugs arise from it but still looking at what already is there this requires very minimal change. So I hope this is not an unrealistic request and would be great to see it within the next roll out of updates.

That looks awesome, great job and thanks for all the hard work.

Any ideas, approximately, when you are looking to roll this out? Say in next few weeks/months or half a year?

We're not sure. Last time we gave an estimate, it ended up taking a lot longer. That being said, we're throwing everything at getting this new version out ASAP.  

Added Episode back to Planned list.