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better search?
!Friendica Support any recommendations on how to search for a particular post/thread? I had participated in a thread with @Hypolite Petovan a while back discussing the differences advantages and disadvantages between the polycentric 'verse and some P2P social media. I wanted to reference it again to look up more on the particular P2P that had been discussed, but I can't for the life of me find it. I should have favorited it, but I didn't. I can't find a way to limit my search to @Hypolite Petovan or even just friends/conversations so I get a whole 'verse full of results for "P2P" and "P2P Social Media"
@Hypolite Petovan @Hypolite Petovan !Friendica Support
Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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We support the binary search from MySQL. So possibly some +hypolite +p2p could work.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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I can't find the original post with +p2p +"Ji Fu" nor +p2p +ji or +p2p +fu or +p2p +fu@libranet.de or +p2p +https://libranet.de/profile/fu so it's definitely perfectible, not sure how though, we don't control the MySQL fulltext index.
Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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The search only searches in the body. We could maintain some kind of search index, but this would nearly double the storage space needed for the post-content table, I guess.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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Doesn't the body include the link to the mentioned profile and/or the webfinger address?
Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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It should - but I have to make some tests to have got a little bit more insight.
Ji Fu
Ji Fu  
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@Michael Vogel I don't know a lot about this stuff, but wouldn't it only show in that if specifically tagged the user in the post like I just did, but not when doing so implicitly by reply to the comment like as you did to @Hypolite Petovan ?
@Hypolite Petovan @Michael Vogel
Roland Häder
Roland Häder  
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@Ji Fu Yes, the post owner need to add #hashtags . Then you can very easily search for them by entering them (including #) in the search form above. But I guess you look for some mention- or participation-search? I guess that's not available.
#hashtags @Ji Fu
Ji Fu
Ji Fu  
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I did figure out what I was looking for, https://scuttlebutt.nz/ actually through an unrelated Internet search when I was trying to find how to post to Friendica via XMPP. I really wished I had favorited that thread though, it was a good thread. @Hypolite Petovan do you have any recollection of the specific thread I am speaking of?
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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I couldn't find anything relevant with XMPP and Friendica in my search.
Ji Fu
Ji Fu  
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right, the XMPP reference was just about how I found #scuttleButt again when I did a DuckDuckGo search for "post to Friendica via XMPP" I was just asking, as a general side conversation that is unimportant, if you happen to remember the conversation we had had with that one dude about how the #Fediverse is awful and we should all be using P2P social networking [because facism is good, or some such nonsense].
#fediverse #scuttlebutt
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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No, I do not remember, thank goodness!
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