Unify search

[jb55]

This is more of a design question: but does it make sense to keep global and remote search separate?

Right now we have a search box on the universe view, but it does not search the universe. It could! would could use nip50 here.

For the home timeline, search could mean only search for content from friends (suggested by @danieldaquino )

Alternatively, we could unify search into a single search box. This simplified things by having a single location for search. I like the idea of the pull-down search as seen in imessage, mail, telegram, etc.

The benefit of a unified search is that it removes lots of confusion. There is always one place to look for:

• People/pubkeys
• Local content
• Remote content

For remote content, we wouldn't want to always trigger a remote search for privacy reasons, but perhaps it could be a simple "click to initiate search on relays".

I'm leaning towards removing the search box from universe and having it more like telegram:

search	query

[jb55]

Open to more design ideas.

@karnagebitcoin @robagreda

[karnagebitcoin]

This is pretty much how I have it mocked up in Nostr Design (but as wireframe)

https://nostrdesign.org/docs/reference-designs/search/

[karnagebitcoin]

Could also combine all of them into one feed (limiting how many results you show), with "show more" buttons.

The benefit might be less clicking needed. You'd see some of the most relevant results right away from various categories of results, with ability to click through for more.

But I also like tabs... hard to decide.

[alltheseas]

@ericholguin

[robagreda]

@jb55 @karnagebitcoin can we show by default recent search and maybe trending in the last 24hrs? similar to twitter. I am thinking that now you have to type something in order to see matching results but sometimes if just good to have something pre-filled and let me pick, if nothing there is relevant to me, I will type my query.

Tabs are usually great to separate content just in case we have a long list of matching results, I've seen that on Twitter, Instagram, Fb and more. I think is because is more scalable.

[alltheseas]

default recent search

see search history #1002 - this would be great (could be local history)

maybe trending in the last 24hrs

does this require nostrdb, and then algo store #1302 #2015 @ericholguin ?

can we temporarily use nostr.band algo?

[robagreda]

I can come up with designs for both options, tabs and something similar to what @karnagebitcoin has mocked up...

Btw, this unified search is separate than the Universe view, isn't it?

[jb55]

Could also combine all of them into one feed (limiting how many results you show), with "show more" buttons.

The benefit might be less clicking needed. You'd see some of the most relevant results right away from various categories of results, with ability to click through for more.

But I also like tabs... hard to decide.

This looks cool, maybe there could be a note result section that shows a few result highlights, and if you click it, it expands into the full result set?

[jb55]

I can come up with designs for both options, tabs and something similar to what @karnagebitcoin has mocked up...

Btw, this unified search is separate than the Universe view, isn't it?

we want to remove search from the universe view. when you go to the universe view it loads data, you shouldn't have to load data to search.

maybe the search there could be global search, I don't know. context-sensitive searching is something we want on profile pages, so maybe it makes sense on global too?

If we are going to have context-sensitive search it should only be scoped to that particular view. it doesn't make sense to have profile results on in Universe. That makes more sense in our main search box.

Instagram has a dedicated search tab at the bottom, maybe we should consider this as well.

[robagreda]

I can come up with designs for both options, tabs and something similar to what @karnagebitcoin has mocked up...
Btw, this unified search is separate than the Universe view, isn't it?

we want to remove search from the universe view. when you go to the universe view it loads data, you shouldn't have to load data to search.

maybe the search there could be global search, I don't know. context-sensitive searching is something we want on profile pages, so maybe it makes sense on global too?

If we are going to have context-sensitive search it should only be scoped to that particular view. it doesn't make sense to have profile results on in Universe. That makes more sense in our main search box.

Instagram has a dedicated search tab at the bottom, maybe we should consider this as well.

I am thinking that we can use the search tab for a global search and a different icon to access the universe view. We can consider adding a search in universe as you've mentioned but having the global search is more than enough.

Right now we use the search tab to access the universe view alongside Search.

I remember I tried to design this in the past, but don't know if it makes sense!

[alltheseas]

Moving to 2.0 1.10 milestone to account for design, dev investigation, and testing time

[jb55]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 10:34:21AM GMT, Roberto wrote: I am thinking that we can use the search tab for a global search and a different icon to access the universe view. We can consider adding a search in universe as you've mentioned but having the global search is more than enough. Right now we use the search tab to access the universe view alongside Search.

I wonder if universe icon should be a part of the individual discord-like relay selection when we have that. Then you would select it like you would be visiting any other relay or relay set. Don't know if we ever designed that.

[robagreda]

was checking the Figma file and found that I did have a design for this!

Any thoughts?

[alltheseas]

was checking the Figma file and found that I did have a design for this!

Any thoughts?

👀

What I enjoy about telegram search is the vertical delineation
Top: chats and contacts
Mid: global search
Lower: messages

I wonder how might we also allow for searching only on a particular relay (and if we need to think about this today)

[jb55]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 03:28:31PM GMT, Roberto wrote: was checking the Figma file and found that I did have a design for this! Any thoughts? 

that looks great! although the search nostrich is a bit weird

[alltheseas]

Related: MacOS search #2048
Search across sources #2081