improvement Diaspora* search engine
Improve the Diaspora* search engine
1) Allow the ability to search a combination of tags, eg. #nature + #photo
2) Allow the ability for users to search for posts by user and by subject, eg: to search for posts by Juan Santiago, search "[email protected] + #palestine"
(Please, English is not my language, can anyone correctly write my proposal?)
(Edit by @Chris26)
Faldrian Thu 6 Nov 2014 9:40AM
It at least won't be done unless it's filed at github.
goob Thu 6 Nov 2014 1:13PM
Why is this a vote? Isn’t this a feature request to be filed at GitHub?
It already has been filed at Github, long ago... see #2019 and #4287.
There's also an existing Loomio thread about it. So this is a duplicate in every sense.
Asher Thu 6 Nov 2014 9:44PM
Thanks for keeping us in line @goob!
Michiel Zandbelt Tue 30 Dec 2014 10:19AM
(New here, and not really understanding the somtimes quite technical dialogs and various threads on similar subjects, apologising therefore, BUT as a new Diaspora user that likes to see the use of Diaspora increasing)
I can't find the answer on my question why searching is person ID and hashtag limited and why one cannot search fo any word (so search for words not hastagged).
I guess I am defintely not the first one to note this, and most probably (I assume) it may result from a deliberate policy / community choice to provide the search option for now as it is, but in the wiki or on the future development pages provided by Diaspora https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Current_and_future_development this issue IMO isn't clearly adressed.
Is there a specific URL where I can read the current vision on (limited) search options in Diaspora* and why one cannot search for single words without a #?
Again I apologise because the question may be very annoying for those who know, but that's exacty the point: how do you know why this is the case?
Juan Santiago Tue 30 Dec 2014 10:59AM
@michielzandbelt
The absolute search consume many more recuros for a system like Diaspora is vital conserve resources, search taxonomies save memory and processes.
A absolute search engine for diaspora (only content and public users) is a very good idea (not consume resources pods), but it seems preferable to be done externally, an API would facilitate this.
Michiel Zandbelt Tue 30 Dec 2014 11:11AM
ah, ok thanks for explaining Juan. I get the point now, hopefully a future feature then ;-)
Balasankar C · Thu 6 Nov 2014 9:31AM
Why is this a vote? Isn't this a feature request to be filed at GitHub?