Why is the community filtering/search so broken

Why is filtering/search in the Visual Studio community so broken?
If I try to limit the scope of my question ("task board") to one forum ("Visual Studio Online") - it seems to be impossible to do:
If I enter "task board" in the right hand search field and click search - I get a lot of irrelevant crap about TFS.
If I then go to the left hand side and enter "Visual Studio Online" -- .... NOTHING HAPPENS
OTOH
If I start with "Visual Studio Online" selected in the left hand column (and I can only get there by entering it, the Delete "x" on the forlum lst doesn't seem to work)
Then I select the Azure subsection/forum
And the system now shows only "Visual Studio Online" as my forum search
I then go to the right hand search box and enter "Task board" - and voila!!! ALL the forums are search and all the same crap about TFS shows up

Hello Karl,
Welcome to MSDN forum.
Your issue is out of support range of VS General Question forum which mainly discusses
the usage of Visual Studio IDE such as WPF & SL designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System
and Visual Studio Editor.
I will move this thread to off-topic forum.
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