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What are your thoughts on Lemmy's current search functionality? (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Do you think it works okay, at least so far as local/federated communities go? What are some adjustments you might like to see to it?

Personally, I still find the dropdown/search combination somewhat unintuitive and at times it can feel clunky, although it has definitely improved. I sort of think a regular search bar to filter through communities/posters might be better, with a separate dropdown beneath or next to the bar, so one knows one can directly search by community/username, but I can see why it was done the way it was to a degree.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The search is abmyssal in my opinion. I can't reliably paste links I've found elsewhere โ€” always have to manually change it to match the expected community syntax. I only every use it if I have to, and then I resort to search for the community of interest, and use the community view to find a post I'm looking for. Not suited for discovery in my experience.

It may have improved lately though, I wouldn't know since I'm not using it much.