alt Hacker NewsSearch is essentially broken and completely useless. If I’m mistaken, maybe someone might chime in and explain how I can make it work. But right now, the only way to search for messages is to export them and search in the text file.
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Arathorn • yesterday at 2:24 PM
Unencrypted room search should Just Work for unencrypted rooms (it uses postgres FTS under the hood).
Encrypted room search should also Just Work... but only on Element Desktop (which uses tantivy to do clientside search). We are in the process of porting this to Element X (and Element Web), but after an initial spike over the summer we're waiting for either funding or manpower to finish it.
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If that's true, it sounds terrible, and a reason enough to not consider it at all. So much of the work in bug organizations is about just searching for past conversations when a similar issue had been discussed... Search must be flawless.