Post #3283897

2023-08-24 19:17 UTC

To opt into your content being searchable, once your instance is upgraded to support this feature, head to the your profile, and the new “Privacy and reach" tag, then tick the "include public posts in search”. We will try to ensure users know this setting exists, nothing 100% defined yet, but we may add a dismissible banner asking to review your privacy settings page.

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@renchap@oisaur.com 2023-08-24 19:22

Full-text search allows you to search for words in the content of statuses (if your instance has ElasticSearch configured), compared to the current version which only allows searching for hashtags. In addition, you get a whole lot of search modifiers for advanced search (no UI for those yet): has:image / has:video / has:audio / has:media has:poll / has:link / has:embed is:sensitive / is:reply language:en from:account before:2023-08-08 after:2023-08-08 during:2023-08-08

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@Brendanjones@fosstodon.org 2023-08-24 19:36

@renchap@oisaur.com a change like this is definitely worthy of a banner of some sort 👍 If you're worrying people might be annoyed by it, I wouldn't be. Better for people to be annoyed by one banner they have to dismiss than to be annoyed at never having been informed of such a big change.

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@joenepraat@todon.nl 2023-08-24 21:14

@renchap@oisaur.com How do you make sure that bad actors don't misuse this? For example; I understand that only posts from users with the indexable flag are indexed. Isn't it easy for bad actors to add the indexable flag to every account on their side? So that all posts will be indexed after all?

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