I think that’s some important missing functionality.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Yes but there are also other things that I would consider much higher prioritization still before that.

      One being easier usability of reading and responding to comments, especially those deeper in a chain - i.e. we need a “see parent comment” option. I created a codeberg issue for this (I can’t connect to that server atm to link it here there is some ongoing issue involving a JavaScript error on that site, but I did manage to find the link: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1362).

      Another issue is that there still seems to be no way to preview a post before creating it (on Firefox, on Android, on PieFed.social) - yes for comments but no for actual posts. (Edit: interesting, this seems to only be true for mobile but not desktop?)

      Some similar issues that are already completed are the ability to view the modlog for a community and a button adding spoiler text markdown - I will use those roughly the same frequency as I would a search function (probably a bit higher actually) and at a guess were far easier to implement.:-)

      At some point it will be embarrassing to not have a fully fledged search function, but imho we are not all that close to that point yet, relative to other issues that are used hourly or daily rather than weekly or monthly.

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        yeah I can see that. Just the other day I was thinking how nice it would be to collapse a chain of comments.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          Ah, found the link: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1362

          Absolutely - and it is not entirely just a convenience factor, it really is possible to get “lost” since PieFed often seems to ignore where the URL link was pointing (especially if there are many comments and those now have to load differently, after the page load) and instead just defaults to navigating to the top of the OP, at which point if you attempt to search for the identical text of the message, it may not be found (despite the fact that it 100% does exist, deeper in the chain). Here is an example link: https://piefed.social/post/1305005#comment_8178603, which (1) you will note that clicking it does not navigate directly to it (note that there are only 59 comments total - so this failure to navigate directly to it is entirely separate from the issue of loading comments after the page), and (2) despite the fact that that comment includes the full text “And it makes sense that it was not a FULL rebuttal”, if you search for that text it will not be found. The only way I can manage to find it after being thus “lost” is to go through the page and click on every single “Continue thread” that appears there one by one, underneath one of them (hopefully!?:-P) the desired content will eventually be found.

          Replying to comments is something that I do several times a day - I am doing it right here and now in fact:-). This is something that should have a much higher prioritization to fix than searching, imho. Not that I want to “demand” anything - all of this work is done for free and we all appreciate that - but in case it helps to say my thoughts and where I am coming from there:-D. I would love to see replying to comments streamlined much more than it is now, even at the cost of pushing back implementation of a more robust set of search functions.

          Edit: another streamlining that I would love to see happen is inline editing of comments. I hate how after you edit an existing comment, it next takes you to the full page and you lose where you were before.