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 @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 
 Thanks for your sharing 🤙 
  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. 
 Great,I just tested nostr.band and it can indeed search for long articles. Freerse still can't search, maybe it doesn't include this event. I need to check it out.