Is there any way to boost certain document types or hits in different fields for the built in ExternalIndex (Umbraco 13+)?

You can boost in your search queries, Lucene has moved away from boosting at index time https://shazwazza.github.io/Examine/articles/searching.html#boosting

Why did they move away from that? Isnt boosting outside the index going to affect performance?

I don't know the exact reason, but been that way in the Java version for a while, and has now made its way to the .NET one as well.. I haven't felt any performance degradation from it

Alright 😄 thanks for the response 🙂