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Suggestion: 2FA and Site-wide Search
I am absolutely loving Tildes so far! I have been using HackerNews for a long time and I think a couple of things that sites like those lack is 2-Factor Authentication and a dedicated on-site search functionality. Even though this is not a priority, nor does this site require any personal data, I think adding a 2FA would allow users to strengthen (?) their account at one point. I also think a site-wide search would be a good feature to have. HN does not have a native search and you need to use 3rd party services through HN API, which I think isn't really intuitive.
Neither of these are a priority, but I think having these features early on would actually be a good thing to do.
We most definitely plan on implementing that at some point but are just spread pretty thin right now at this early stage of development. Once we opensource some time in the coming weeks that should take some of the pressure off @deimos so he can focus on stuff like this though. Right now he is just primarily concerned with keeping the site from imploding and adding the basic features we require. :)
I would love to help with the development once I am less busy! I can help with Python backend I guess :)
That's good to hear. We will gladly take as much help as people are willing to give! :P
I will definitely be taking a look at implementing 2FA once the source is available for contributions.
We are a privacy-by-design site and using a third party service for search goes against that principle.
It is not about having a third party service, I just meant to say that not having a search service literally cripples a huge part of the site. For example, I had a friend over a couple hours ago and I wanted to show him a post on HackerNews which I saw a couple of days ago. I literally had to resort to a third party service to do it for me because HN does not have a native service.
I do not mean to compare with a third-party search engine in my suggestion, but I hope you get it.
Yeah, we understand that. It's annoying for us not being able to search either. ;)
@deimos already has a working search function for the site though. He just hasn't committed it yet. AFAIK it should be rolling out in the next week or so.
What does that look like?
It's pretty rudimentary at the moment from my understanding. Just a very basic search function. But the intent is to have it fully featured including search by date/time, date ranges (which reddit recently removed from their search), tags, metadata, titles and even comments (since that is sorely lacking on reddit).
Oh cool.
Thank you very much
and @deimos ily :)
Sorry for suggesting something.
Sorry, I didn't mean to be so terse. It was a good suggestion, just something we want to avoid since privacy and giving users control over their own data is something we want to fully support. Once third parties enter into the mix it gets a lot harder to ensure that.
They do support plenty of back end languages.
It's not the language support that is the issue so much as having to share our userdata with a third party that we have no control over, especially in regards to their retention policy.