Post #3283898

2023-08-24 19:22 UTC

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

Replies (5)

@developit@mastodon.social 2023-08-24 19:32

@renchap@oisaur.com will the new search modifiers like `has:image` work on content that is not full-text searchable?

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@diarra@framapiaf.org 2023-08-24 19:36

@renchap@oisaur.com Sorry to ask but can we do a search for our own faved toots that has a specific text ?

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@OutOnTheMoors@beige.party 2023-08-24 19:39

@renchap@oisaur.com How do we opt out of this nonsense?

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@ladyteruki@mastodon.social 2023-08-24 19:42

@renchap@oisaur.com : if I opt-in and don't like it, then opt-out, how does it work ? For instance are toots posted while I opted in still searchable ?

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@renchap@oisaur.com 2023-08-24 21:07

You can find a nice page about search on Mastodon made by @vmstan@vmst.io here: https://docs.vmst.io/infrastructure/search Merging this PR is only the first step, and we know there are probably bugs, things that do not work as expected, or missing features. This is not the end of the journey and there will be improvements! Please open Github issues if you see any problem related to full text search (once your instance has it) Also, multiple people asked if alt texts are indexed, and I can confirm they are 👍

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