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kensanata / bitlbee-mastodon

A Mastodon plugin for Bitlbee
https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Bitlbee_Mastodon
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Improve search #15

Closed kensanata closed 5 years ago

kensanata commented 6 years ago

Search should not dump debug information from the API. Instead, it should print nice things and then people can use info to get the debug info, if they really need it.

ghost commented 6 years ago

The raw json output is indeed ugly. I'm sure it's useful if an app were to make it useful. The "search" command should probably be presentable, and the current behavior could perhaps be renamed as "searchraw" or "searchjson" or something.

kensanata commented 6 years ago

Yeah, if anybody is going to work on this, they also need to test the workflow. First, I search for a string. I get a bunch of usernames, hashtags, etc. When presenting usernames, it would be nice if this resulted in their names being available for follow up action like url or timeline but that means that they need to be stored somewhere. We can't just print them and be done with it, I think?