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What are your thoughts on Lemmy's current search functionality? (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I want to be able to search my own comments. Sometimes I want to pull up an old comment to prove I said/didn't say something or find a meme that I posted awhile ago. Being able to search other user's comments though would be kind of eeeeh, might be used for harassment.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can do both of these on the search page by filtering by creator.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Huh, neat. So that's what that option is for.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

There would also probably be an easy way to add this as a shortcut on your profile page too, IE to search all your content. Someone would have to open up an issue on the lemmy-ui github for that tho.