If you could change one thing about saidit's code, what would it be?

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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Search results, organizing, context. Why bother with having subs at all? Some people clearly don't sort their posts, always in the same few. But if you look at some you see they are all on that topic. Many posts can fit under many topics simultaneously. Though less orderly than Wikipedia, lots of people use Reddit and SaidIt for research, as well as other sites, and keywords and tags help a lot.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Search results, organizing, context.

Those are already solved by search and subs. I don't think we need redundant parallel systems for those things.

A multi-sub crossposting system is in the works. It sounds like that's what you actually want.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I just hope for better search tools. Whether it's user or code driven, via subs or search, or whatever. Even if SaidIt had the best organization in the world, it would still be worth striving to make it better.

Crossposting gives me tingles every time you say it. Same with decentralizing.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah the search tools are okay, but the package they're built in is outdated. Honestly, for intense or specific searching, I recommend using google or duckduckgo with "site:saidit.net" added as a search term to limit the search just to saidit. This has always been the recommended method with reddit, so even though our search is mildly improved, it's still not as good as actual search engines and probably never will be.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the search tip. Would be good for the FAQ.

Maybe I was doing it wrong before. A year or more ago it seemed like DDG didn't know SaidIt existed. Then I could search it wonderfully for a while (maybe I was doing it differently). Then I couldn't again, like they dropped it. That "site:" might be the trick I forgot that I forgot. Might be neat to embed a second and/or third search with a G and DDG icon that automatically prefixes the search - or add it to the drop down advanced options.