Thanks for the shout-out.
But FYI I’ve run into some bugs that’s preventing new content from being indexed. So you won’t see anything new (from about a week ago) until I can find a new method to fetch new posts.
Just dropping by to say “thanks”
So, thanks for putting in the work. I know it isn’t easy. And can easily be overlooked. ❤️
Would it be better if your backend federates with popular instances so they push new posts and comments to your search engine? That way, you don’t need to scrape those instances to index their contents (because they’ll voluntarily send the contents to you via activitypub).
The issue is that you can’t search a ton of servers at once unless you index all their posts. To get a proper search engine someone would not only have to spend the time to code it but also the money to host that beast! :/
I’m not using it a lot but the few times I did it didn’t fail me: Lemmyverse
That site only lists Lemmy instances and communities, with several filtering options. It’s not a search engine for Lemmy content.
I only use memmy on iOS and the search function is great.
