Oddbean new post about login | logout Attempting to search for anyone or anything currently sucks donkey balls
to be fair internet search engines are getting so bad that nostr doesn't really seem out of place
@brugeman what’s the state of search both within your projects and across the ecosystem? We haven’t caught up on this in a while
Damus doesn't have search integrated, which makes a third of Nostr users think it's completely broken. Amethyst has our relay for search by default, last time I checked it worked pretty well. Primal has their own search. There is search by nostr.wine relay and also relay.noswhere.com. I recently saw a rust-based relay with full-text search. Search infrastructure is available to any app, not all of them care enough - lack of real demand, most likely.
Freerse has been using Nostr.band's relay search, which is very useful. This is the first one on Nostr that supports text search. 🫂💜 Thank you for sharing several other relays that support search. Is "rust-based relay" a relay address? Do you have a complete address? I will test it.
You are welcome. Rust based is the relay software https://github.com/rnostr/rnostr
brugemanDoes nostr.band have plans to support searching for long articles? I find that the current search lacks long article data.
Thanks for bringing this up, long-form search should work, but it doesn't, I will look into that.
Great, looking forward to your support for long article search.
Turns out the relay was working fine (it supports long posts and many other kinds for a long time), it's just the nostr.band UI was broken. Fixed it.
Which apps do you use for search?
Just searching inside Amethyst. Trying to find old convos or messages seems to be a total waste of time. Trying to find a specific account, even when I follow them doesn't work well. Trying to tag people I follow in notes rarely works. I generally have to go to my messages, find the last interaction, go to their profile, copy npub & then paste it into the message to get tags to work.
Tagging people isn't really search in most apps, maybe @Vitor Pamplona could comment. Search for old conversations is hard, unless you remember some very specific words being used - your searching is anonymous, we don't personalize it in any way to prioritise content closer to you. A filter by author could help, but the app would need new UI for that.
nostr dot band may help with searching. I haven't used it yet, but know about it as a way to search nostr https://nostr.band/
I made this app to make this easier to dig up old notes https://advancednostrsearch.vercel.app. I use it all the time.
Lol, already had it bookmarked, must have just forgotten about it. Thanks
Our search quality is entirely dependent on which relays are active for search in your relay list. Only nostr.band, relay.noswhere.com and nostr.wine support search. :( One day we will have search on Citrine and then you can have a local search to use :)
Well thats something I bet most Amethyst users are unaware of.... nostr:nevent1qqsquzft2vg96qtc0a49v6pfk5tvpgmege97n066cfz24rqzwu8jcugpz4mhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2un9d3shjtnrdaksygzxpsj7dqha57pjk5k37gkn6g4nzakewtmqmnwryyhd3jfwlpgxtspsgqqqqqqskxlet2
noogle.lol works sometimes for searching