Internal search service

[nolanlawson]

I've cut off all crawlers from toot.cafe (tootcafe/mastodon#1) in order to protect people's privacy (by default, anyway; this could possibly be opened up on an individual basis). Mastodon already provides hashtag-based search but not fulltext search in order to prevent harassment (e.g. a troll searching for a particular topic and harassing anyone talking about that topic).

But maybe it would be useful to have an internal search tool available only for toot.cafe users so that they could find old toots. Or maybe this would still be a step too far and would make people uncomfortable. Should it be limited only to your own toots? What about boosts? What does everything think?

Also I have no idea if Mastodon supports this feature or if we would have to build it.

[gled-rs]

I am currently working on extending the search results on our instance with full text capacity ( using sphinx to index docs ).

I'll let you know if I have a reasonable PR !

[nolanlawson]

When you open your PR, let me take a look! Very curious to add such a feature. :)