also just as a thing, in general 'you shouldnt impliment this because it isnt the platonic ideal of <thing>' doesnt actually fly.
no im not talking about the not-quite-almost-ok privacy stuff, i mean... christ so many features that people say cant even be worked on because any solutions that can be done wont be absolutely perfect
@nire I've been thinking about things like federated search and stuff.
The problem is literally thousands of requests for each search...
@Elizafox federated search is different, as is a lot of things, because bandwidth requirements are absurd from masto being done the way it is
@Elizafox the way i can see search done is by someone *hosting the search thing* or a cluster of them that work together, because otherwise a lot of the effort is duplicated
@nire The thing is a lot of admins want to opt out of search so that really sucks. =I
I've heard things like "you don't really want search" like wtf don't tell me what I want.
@Elizafox opting out of search on an individual level would be nice. admins... let users decide? maybe make it default off. but like, its a useful function? especially now, when people want to find like, stuff people have said about dev
@nire Yeah.
The thing about federated search btw is each search query would expand outwards to each server and it's gonna be really load intensive and eat shit tons of bandwidth/CPU. It just doesn't scale.
@Elizafox and, hah, half the servers cant even handle you following more than one person every ten seconds, as i figured out manually following 200 people one day
@nire My best solution for search actually:
Search locally and allow searches to other servers individually at a time.
There's also token bucket limiting for queries (both outgoing and incoming) but that's a shitty hack and one of the least user-friendly things about reddit too.
Seriously, "search before asking" well wtf search is BROKEN half hte fucking time.
@Elizafox or just restrict it to narrowed searches.
@Elizafox 'you need no less than three parameters' :P
@Elizafox idk is google indexing these with any regularity yet? lemmie check
@Elizafox nope its completely random and a very poor sampling so you cant use that :P
@Elizafox like, posts can get out of order but you notice w/ follows or searches
@Elizafox er, make a toggle to make it default off for your instance