At minimum, the Instance installer guides and documentation needs to reflect that your own server doing real-time searches should be a conscious choice.
Lemmy.ml is erroring out already on searches, GitHub issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3296
And if I’m seeing things right, 0.18 changed the loging from 0.17 where searching for a community https://lemmy.ml/communities now does a full-text posting/comment search? It gives a ton of output I don’t want, and it’s hitting the database even harder. Instead of just searching a single database table, now it is going into comments and postings.
Reddit was legendary for not having their own in-build comment and posting search engine up to date - and also used PostgreSQL (at least they did when still open source). It is a huge amount of data and I/O processing.
postgresql has integrated full text search functionality that works pretty well. shouldn’t be too hard to add
Yeah defaulting the search type to “all” when searching from the Communities page is kind of silly.
The problem is, at least in v0.17.x, searching for a community url or bang-prefixed community name returns nothing when you constrain the “type” drop-down to “communities”. Now, that feels pretty clearly like a bug to me… if you search community-types by url, it should return the correct result.
But if that couldn’t be fixed for v0.18.0 due to time/priority constraints, defaulting to searching “all” types is a reasonable workaround even if it makes little sense absent the above context. At least until searching for communities by url is fixed.
I’d rather no results, than a massive list of incorrect results of a type I’m not searching for… ie comments/posts rather than communities.
Support would be great. I use it with my Akkoma instance and it works quite well.
