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It feels like people are 50%/50% on the search feature on Mastodon and Fediverse in general. Some Fedi software have quite extensive search implemented already in my knowledge. Mastodon barely has any search if you don't count the open text search patch.

What do you think?

Pick one.

I want to see how divided we are on this.

#Fediverse #Features #Search

  • The search should find all public posts (81%, 376 votes)
  • No searching in here please (18%, 87 votes)
463 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

#fediverse #search #features
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
Renaud Chaput
Renaud Chaput  
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I might get in trouble for saying this, but there is a 90% chance that improved search (with public posts) will be in 4.2.0 final. PR (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344) is almost ready and we want to deploy is on m.s ASAP to get some feedback, and include it in beta 2.

Add new public status index by jsgoldstein · Pull Request #26344 · mastodon/mastodon

This is a follow up to #25951 The idea here is to allow public posts by discoverable users to show up in search results. This is done by adding a new Public Status Index to Elastic Search. A status...
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