How quickly people forgot that Gargron originally wasn't going to implement FTS because people worried about abuse potential...
@Elizafox Isn't it only implemented so you can search your own toots? Thats how I'd understood the situation. :/
talk is cheap, show us the proof that TSEARCH can't handle it when there are proper indices in place
@kaniini it didn't even have constraints originally, lol
I don't know if gargron knows what an index is
(I only half-kid)
@Angle This also means passive-aggressive boosting is more likely, because then you can boost someone's toot you don't even follow because you want to use it against them later, then search for it.
@Elizafox That at least is easy enough to resolve with blocks, bans and silences. The search functionality in general I dunno about. :/
@Elizafox Hmm, gotcha. :/
@Angle But here's the thing: I can just use google to do that, or find a cooperative admin to do it if I tell them what to do. This just makes it even easier now.
@Angle (or in my case, I /am/ the admin)
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just tell the cooperative admin:
curl http://127.0.0.1:9200/mastodon/_search?q=loldongs
and voila, you have search results
if you think this is not simpler than showing them how to use SQL, you're an idiot
@Angle
"You'll be able to search for toots you've written, boosted, favourited or were mentioned in. The API does not change in any way to allow this, but since this is a computationally-heavy feature, it's optional for admins to setup and requires an ElasticSearch database."
The change is simple to allow for any kind of search.