Yeah I really don’t know wtf happened here 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is very nice mate 👌 Probably one of the best sunsets I’ve seen 😅

Yeah this happens from time- to time, and there isn’t really a lot we can do about it. If a twt was published and enough clients saw it and replied to it, but then yeah basically what @bender@twtxt.net said 😅

I made some improvements to the Twtxt Search service tonight. Hopefully this update makes it a bit easier to use and resolves some of your critical pieces of feedback @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 🤞 The main idea being that by default the search is basically a “Query String” type search, meaning that it does what you expect. If you search for a simple term, it’ll do that, If you enclose your search term in “double quotes” it’ll search for that phrase. If you then want to search against specific fields you can do so with mentions:prologic@twtxt.net for example. I hope this makes the useability much better 👌

@bender@twtxt.net Definitely a bug here, but I think it’s an old outstanding bug that I have to figure out again and fix 🤦‍♂️

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com I would recommend using a client that at least supports the Twt Hash and Twt Subject extensions 😅

@dbucklin I would recommend using a client that at least supports the Twt Hash and Twt Subject extensions 😅

@mckinley@twtxt.net Fair 👌

@bender@twtxt.net Over ten years now 😆 And you’re right! Problem is no-one makes the chassis anymore 😢

To be honest I don’t find it all that inflexible.

When you consider that you’re limited by hardware anyway, you plan your ZFS array ahead of time like I did.

As the years go on and drives fail you eventually replaces all disks with slightly larger ones.

@mckinley@twtxt.net No

@bender@twtxt.net Yes bit weird 🤔

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com hmmm

@dbucklin Hey! 👋

@bender@twtxt.net Wgat happened? 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’ve kept this thread open to think about… But honestly I’m drawing a blank. Do you have any ideas for improvements yourself here? It’s not super clear to me what we should do to make this easier and more useful 😅 I admit myself I also get confused between Match and Term and even though I understand what Query String search is, I tend to think it’s something we can support by “magical detection”™ of the input? 🤔

Does bring up an
interesting question for me though…

would anyone be willing to pay for a twtxt service?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s the downside of using public services yeah 😢 Yhere is y really a good solution to that 😅

@mckinley@twtxt.net I love ZFS though 😅

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yeah I have plans to redo my
infra to be egress only via WireGuard for that reason 👌

@mckinley@twtxt.net Thanks! 🙇‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net Fair points 🙇‍♂️

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com Also:

Best way to secure your application/swrvice; Don’t put it on the Internet

🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com This is precisely how (and watching your own access logs for UserAgent) discovery should work 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net No worries! My version is very similar, but it doesn’t rely on fork/exec out to the git binary.

@bender@twtxt.net It does! Yarn supports both gemini:// and gopher:// – The search engine crawls both too 😅

@bender@twtxt.net 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net What would make standing up Yarn even easier? I can think of a few things that people might struggle with: a Domain, Pointing the domain at something valid, Maybe a reverse proxy setup. Running yarnd itself is just downloading a binary and configuring it (which could also be easier)

@bender@twtxt.net Hmmm I had a look at the Cloudflare Event logs just now, and I couldn’t find anything that was blocked that was a POST hmmm

That is one magnificent dandelion 😳

Maybe fix the nick too. Having a @ in the # nick = field doesn’t work well. It’s a bug in yarnd 🤣

@@texto-plano.xyz Oh this is a Gemini feed. You should update its Avatar, it has none 😅

There is also legit which is probably better than what I’ve done.

web frontend for git

https://git.icyphox.sh/

@bender@twtxt.net gitxt probably would do the trick for you 👌 It’s not quite as polished as I’d like, but it works.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah improvements should roll out much more quickly than I can by hand 🤣

I just think it’s hilarious that y’all say you don’t use Yarn / twtxt.net in one breath, but in the same you say you frequently visited the frontpage of twtxt.net to catch up on stuff 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Okay, so no “fire hose” 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Speaking of which, can we make any obvious (low hanging fruit) improvements here? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oof ouch! 😱

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Live in a flight path? 🤔

@eapl.me@eapl.me Is self hosting an instance (Yarn or Mastodon) just too hard for most? 🤔 I know standing up ‘as to don is a biatch for sure 🤣

Haha 🤣 No worries! Maune that use-case can move to the search engine / crawler? 🤔

How do we all feel about a “fire hose” front page on https://search.twtxt.net/ ? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks!

Whoo! 🥳 I won 2 of my 3 singles tonight! 🏓

@mckinley@twtxt.net 👌

@bender@twtxt.net I’ll wait a while before doing something. For now I’ve unfollowed.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Lovely😅

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah

@bender@twtxt.net GoToSocial is actually great 👍 I’ve run it while testing/devel;ing my first activity pub integration for yarnd I would run it myself permanently, except that I honestly prefer Twtxt and want to keep Yarn.social alive and moving forward (even if slowly).