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Search Lemmy 0.4.0 update (an enhanced search engine for Lemmy) (www.search-lemmy.com)
submitted 1 year ago by marsara9@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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A couple days ago I updated https://search-lemmy.com/ to 0.4.0.

New features, that several people were asking for:

  • The UI has been overhauled and it should be much easier to find your home instance now.
  • Search itself has been overhauled. Increase search performance significantly. I also automatically search for related terms as well. You may now see fewer search results, but ideally they should be more relevant. You can also now include basic syntax like:
    • quotes: "some terms that must be together"
    • negative terms: cat -dog (shows posts about cats that don't mention dogs)
    • either or: cat OR dog (shows posts about either cats or dogs). The default search behavior is now an implicit AND, but order doesn't matter.
  • I've added several new filters that you can use including:
    • !safeoff -- Disables safe search allowing NSFW posts to appear in the search results (NSFW is now hidden by default)
    • since:YYYY-MM-DD -- shows only posts that have occurred since the specified date
    • until:YYYY-MM-DD -- same as above but in reverse. It will only posts up to the given date.
  • I've removed the preferred-instance query parameter from the results URL so it should be easier to share links to search results now.
  • The date the post was created or last updated is now displayed in the search results.

Bug Fixes:

  • Site performance should now be stable. Fixed a bug related to the database pool that was causing the site to hang.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause broken links.
  • Fixed various bugs with the crawler causing posts to be missed.

Known Issues:

  • If you set your home-instance to a fairly small instance, the number of search results is also relatively small. Once (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3259) is resolved. I should be able to show links regardless of what your home instance is set to, allowing you to search the entire Fediverse.
  • Currently searching only looks at the post title and body. Comments aren't indexed either. This also is dependent on the above issue on Lemmy itself.

Finally some things to note:

I've started to refactor the code to abstract away Lemmy from the actual search engine. As I now start to prepare to search other Fediverse instances like Kbin, and maybe even Mastodon, etc...

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[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eventually it will. But there's a bug preventing global search working in lemmy itself. You can see more of the details here (https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/issues/20 )

One of my primary goals with this is that users MUST be able to open a given link in their home instance so that they can then interact / reply / subscribe, etc... without having to figure out how to find said post themselves. So with that requirement, users MUST select a home instance but because of the before-mentioned bug I can't show posts that your instance isn't aware of.