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I'm sorry for the silly question, but where is the search function?
I can't find it anywhere on the website or in the documentation. Is this a design choice or am I missing something?
I can't find it anywhere on the website or in the documentation. Is this a design choice or am I missing something?
It hasn't been made yet, but It will exist eventually
We need a big notice at the top of the website saying "WORK IN PROGRESS", and a background image with lots of scaffolding and tools everywhere.
I guess it's time to bring some of these back.
what about a small box up top that looks like a search box that says 'Search coming soon' or something that links to the request or a post?
But then we'd need something like that for every missing feature.
Also, anyone coming here from Reddit is going to be very cynical about being told a feature is "coming soon". There's even a running joke over there: "Is that 'soon' for real or Reddit 'Soon™'?"
yeah, I can see that. The output of new features has been remarkable.
I'd like to change my vote over to the goofy guy with the jackhammer and bubble gum.
I think a mention in the FAQ would suffice. But it would have to be specific: we all know Tildes is a work in progress, but it is not clear which specific features already exist. In the case of searching, it's such a basic functionality that its absence might lead to people looking for it for several confusing minutes. Like I did.
Based on some of the questions I've seen here in ~tildes, I wouldn't be so sure about that.
Then, by all means, put a notice on the registering page! I got my invite by emailing the dev(s) after I saw a post on /r/tildes, so I assumed everyone came from similar places.
If you take a look at https://tildes.net/messages, you should see a message titled 'Welcome to the Tildes alpha' that has a bunch of info in it.
I didn't even know I had a message, and I'm always on https://tildes.net/user/mrbig. Does it show when I have unread messages?
Should look like this: https://i.imgur.com/9KrLNUh.png
The message is sent as soon as the account joins.
Yup, link for the curious: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues/90
It's particularly painful because the site is closed, so Google is of no help. I wonder if allowing bots through would alleviate the need for a search for now.
It'd be simple to crawl the site and index topic names, and a little more work to grab comments. No sure how users would view that data though, as we're still private which precludes there being a third-party interface to that index.
Edit: example: https://github.com/Celeo/Tildes_scrapping
Edit 2: removed project; figure I won't make it too easy to make a copy of the site without permission
Wow, that’s funny that you made that. Just yesterday I was looking for browser extensions that can crawl password protected sites to make your own private index to search. I thought for sure something generic like that must exist, but I guess the use cases would be very few as all sites do get native search once out of alpha.
I guess I could just use your scraper instead if need be, and just search the files.
But I’m sure search will come out soon enough.
Yup, the web scraping tooling across many different languages (though especially Python) is pretty widely available and documented.
I know Search is pretty high on the todo list, so I think we'll be fine, yup.
It's in the future!
This seems to keep coming up. Imo there are a few things that say it shouldn't and its ok not to. It prompts people to ask questions to get info. Reddits sucked still does. A search is hard and if done wrong will actually effent the site more then seen.