I laughed out loud back when the creator of Spinster (a cishet man making a website for TERFs) explained that full text search was just impossible to implement for a platform their size (at the time a few hundred people) They still don't have it https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1326433013970972672 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Christ, so many off the shelf search backends they could use, literally just google it guys.
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Replying to @xDemoli
He said trying to implement full text search slowed the whole site to a crawl, they didn't have the system resources to support it
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Astonishing, especially as you can offload search onto a separate service. Was he running the site on a 386?
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Replying to @xDemoli
Hey I'm not privy to any of their backend secrets although in hindsight it does feel like some unknown portion of the funds they raised to run the website *must* have gone into moving across the country from Philly to California
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