Search Voat v2 beta preview (SearchVoat)

submitted ago by SearchVoat

Introducing a preview of Search Voat version 2 (beta): https://searchvoat.co/v2

  • Search posts, comments and subverses from the same page.
  • Faster search (I hope)
  • Search short words (like "Q")

Coming soon:

  • Alerts
  • Buttons to delete/refresh posts (for when you delete a post on Voat but it still shows up on SV)

Comments, questions, suggestions, objections welcome here please.

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Vindicator ago

Love it, SearchVoat!

I've been fooling around and tried to search a user's comments in two subverses. It gave me errors whether I put a comma and a space between the two subverse names, or a comma with no space. FYI. :-)

SearchVoat ago

This should be working now. Could you please check it for me?

Vindicator ago

Yep. Worked great!

BTW, I was able to use the new search functionality yesterday to dig up some very interesting material buried in the comments of a deleted thread (that shouldn't have been deleted) relating to what may be going on with Julian Assange. Here's the post I did based on it: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3153090/17975930

It inspired me to create a new subverse where goats can datamine Voat's info horde on elite globalist corruption: v/WW2Discernment. Hopefully, others will get involved. :-) I put up a sticky based on the v/SearchVoat stickies.

One thing that would be a great improvement for me and help noobs not inadvertently search too narrowly would be the option to change the default SearchVoat setting options to "search post body" and "include NSFW" so I didn't have to open "Options" and click the check boxes every time.

Thanks for everything you do to make Voat great!

SearchVoat ago

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.

I've updated SV v1 & v2 so if you search from a NSFW subverse, even if you don't limit results to that subverse, "include NSFW" is on by default. I don't want to include NSFW by default when searching from non-NSFW pages, for obvious reasons.

I've often thought about whether to "search post body" by default. My current feeling is that most people want to find posts about their search topic, not posts that happen to mention it. I may put a message at the end of the results saying something like, "if you didn't find what you were looking for, click here to run the search again including post text" or some such.