Search filter in TagsView dosn't work as expected

Bug reports
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Steps to reproduce

The search filter in Tagsview (introduced in Obsidian V1.8) don't work as expected.

My taglist contains 263 Tags (sorted A-Z, asc). It contains the tags #Zeitschriften and #Zeitzeugen.
With the filter, I searched for “Zeit”, but the result is empty.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y

Expected result

As result I expect: Zeitschriften Zeitzeugen

Actual result

empty result

Additional information

My Search for "Zeit" captured with the windows snipping tool:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8z8mtdkzfcun8qaphsur7/SearchTagAreaForTags_starting_with_Zeit.mp4?rlkey=xv1kwtuqkmnzsy2iiyn4d5s03&dl=0

I use the latest Version of Obsidian for Windows 1.8.9

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Unfortunately, you only partially followed the bug report template.

Can you post a screen recording of this happening in the sandbox vault?

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This is a Dropbox-Link to the SandboxVideo :

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Hm, I gess the reply function does not recognize the link. How can I post it?

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What is the output of “show debug info” command. You didn’t include it in the BR.

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Ok, I understand what the problem is. We just don’t scroll the the viewport up. You can use the scrollbar on the right and scroll up.

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Show Debug Info:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Windows 11 Home 10.0.26100
Login status: not logged in
Language: de
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

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The link to the Dropbox Sandbox video (new attempt):

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Is the GIF below a viewport issue? You can see the tags in the Sandbox Vault. The search filter displays the tags for ace and cat, but it doesn’t display the one for there. I see the same thing in my main vault, where searching for tags is inconsistent: some tags display, some tags display some of the time, some never display when filtered. Scrolling doesn’t change the view. It seems to be random—no consistent / repeatable pattern where some letters / tags work and some don’t.

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:24:23 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8122 24.3.0
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

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Yes! My search for tags in the tag-view looks like yours. Some tags are found, some not.
BTW, a search “tag:Zeit” (with the core search plugin) gives the correct results.

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I have the same problem. Hundreds of tags and search completely fails to find many of them. For example: darwin, covid, fan, demographics, dignity, projects, …
I could go on. The list is endless.
Search does not work as expected