Visibility still feels like the weak spot on PeerTube, so I built PeerSeek, my own search index, live at https://peerseek.video

[phostapeti@mastodon.social]

@polykit maybe make the search beer sticky

[fedipete@techhub.social]

@polykit excellent! Bookmarked in my Fedi folder.

[adrienandrem@pouet.chapril.org]

@polykit How does it compare to Sepia Search?
#Peertube #search #SepiaSearch

[oliviavespera@spacey.space]

@polykit @Mrfunkedude agreed, you've gotta change the css for it. other than that, it looks real useful

[lps@mograph.social]

@polykit this feels like it would work as a #peertube player app. It feels so much simpler to see the recent and trending videos on the landing page:). Maybe even include the option to login in with Mastodon creds if they want to follow/like/comment without the need for a peertube account

Great initiative, I can't wait to see where this goes:)

[polykit@chaos.social]

@vaporeon_ no, it shouldn’t look like this. Which browser are you using?

[tobozo@mastodon.social]

@polykit thanks for that initiative

colours are horrible on Firefox/Linux though, blue text on blueish background is a pain for the eyes ‍

where/how can additional Peertube servers be submitted to that index?

[polykit@chaos.social]

@tobozo I wonder why that is, I also use Firefox on Linux, see screenshot, I'll look into it. I use the instances index from Peertube at https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

[tobozo@mastodon.social]

@polykit haha did you just fix the issue?

[polykit@chaos.social]

@tobozo yeah, I changed something. Did it work?

[tobozo@mastodon.social]

@polykit yup looks fixed, much better, thanks

I've added a peertube server to joinpeertube, let's see how much time it needs to propagate

BTW the server video.ploud.fr was already in the peertube index, but for some reason the videos from this channel don't come up when searched by keyword or username:

Le Hangar de Virtualabs

Pour le moment, cette chaîne propose les enregistrements des streams Twitch de Virtualabs, diffusés sur https://twitch.tv/virtualabs (en attendant de streamer sur Peertube, un jour).

Ploud Video France (video.ploud.fr)

[lvk@mastodon.online]

@polykit nice! perhaps share the index so other instances can disttibute the load?

[tobozo@mastodon.social]

@polykit raw ideas:

- Use <datalist> instead of <select> for search filters (anything with more than 10 items), eventually allow multiple selection
- "Add instance" header button with link to the corresponding joinpeertube page

[jaypeach53@mastodon.social]

@polykit Just done a little digging so far, this is a great tool! Hope this gives peertube some needed boost to counter YouTube’s dominance.

[jaypeach53@mastodon.social]

@polykit @thibaultmol I don’t know about that the peertube browse content needs a lot of work. This tool already does a better job of search than the browse tool. As examples, “music” works better in browse and “musician” works better in peerseek, in my opinion.

[vaporeon_@glaceon.social]

@polykit LibreWolf 146.0.1-1, on Gentoo Linux.

[polykit@chaos.social]

@vaporeon_ that's a Firefox variant, no? Is it still like this with the fix I pushed this morning?

[vaporeon_@glaceon.social]

@polykit Just tried again, it's fixed now, thanks. Much better. And yes, it's a Firefox fork.

[subetha@nerdculture.de]

@polykit Thanks for building and sharing, I like it!
Because the results appear fast, the grid (on a big screen) shows more at once and I received different results than searching on makertube or sepia.

Would be great if a minus-prefix on search terms would translate into a NOT.
Currently searching for "1980s -AI" results in only the AI related videos.
But I know you're just starting, so this is just an idea for the future development.

[polykit@chaos.social]

The PeerTube search index is getting more and more features You can try it out yourself at

https://peerseek.video

I added

* personalized home feed
* search query modifiers like - and " "
* FAQ section

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking