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Is it possible to support search operators on Lemmy search just like on a typical search engine?
It would be better to replicate the db into a purpose built search engine like elasticsearch or TypeSense, and then modify the UI to use that. It's dumb for lemmy to implement a search engine when there are better more supported systems out there. This isn't really a lemmy feature, imo, outside of supporting deployments using those types of products.
Lemmy would still need to provide the UI for searching, and handle keeping Elasticsearch up-to-date.
A dependency on Elasticsearch would significantly increase RAM usage though, so if Lemmy were to add support for it, it should be optional.
You'll have to open an issue for it. As long as there's some way to translate the search operators into postgres statements, it'd be doable.
OK. See you on Github...