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Awkward Lemmy search behaviors on desktop/web (self.lemmy)

submitted 6 days ago by ElectroVagrant to c/[email protected]

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By now I've mostly (I think) gotten used to some of Lemmy's quirks, but one caught me a little off guard a moment ago related to the search. Admittedly I was trying to be a little lazy, but I think that's fortuitous as many likely take this approach.

I was trying to search to see if a video was posted here before posting it, as I try to avoid making repeat posts especially in the same community.

So I went to search with the default search settings, copied the video's url into the search and ran it.

Despite the default search type being All, which I think many would expect to include searching by all types (posts/comments/communities/users/url), it seems to exclude url. I found this out as I saw only one comment with the video url and no posts, and so went ahead and posted only to see afterward all the cross-posts to other communities.

In a similar way, searching with the All setting for communities feels clunky, as if one searches by a community name without an exclamation mark, it will only show up as mentioned in comments (if it's been mentioned). There's no sort of fuzzy search to have a direct link to the community display in the results.

These are just a couple stumbling blocks in the default web UI that have been around for awhile, but caught my attention again.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good point about the url search, I made a fix for that.

Not sure what exactly you mean with the community search. For example this query shows a couple of relevant communities.

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks!

Regarding community search, sorry for the lack of clarity. I dropped a clear example when revising, I was referring to searching for a community by the form "videos@\sopuli.xyz", note the missing ! from the start.

Maybe that's more of an edge case?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It seems to work fine, maybe its because your instance is outdated.

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I checked on a different up to date instance (lemm.ee) knowing that, and confirmed it was federated with the relevant community, but didn't see those results.

Strangely enough I can't replicate similar results searching lemmy.ml either, so not sure what's going on. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you logged in on those instances? Resolving a community name like that requires a network request, if you are not logged in it doesnt work.

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Aah, that may explain it! I thought it might be best to check logged out for a better sense of how search worked, so was searching logged out.