Problems with searching Partiko and DTube

in #partiko5 years ago

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She might look like a fan of LEGO, but don’t click on that post! It’s not family friendly and has zero to do with LEGO!!!

I’ve been using Steemit a lot more lately. This has a lot to do with @partiko, this app is great and it incentivizes you to use it by giving you points for just using the app, and you can use those points later to boost your posts. However I recently discovered a major flaw in using the app. So hopefully by making this post, @partiko will see this and address the problem. The problem is its search engine. We love to build LEGO and share what we build. So obviously I would like to find other posts that have LEGO in them, however when you search LEGO you get some not so relevant results. First one that comes up is some LEGO shaped ecstasy. I mean sure it’s related to LEGO, but it’s over a year old. Plus it didn’t even use LEGO in the tags, just drugs. The fourth best result is literally porn!!! Then a few other of the top 10 searches come from my buddy @bricksmith78. Who I recruited to Steemit. The unfortunate news is that he has stopped using the platform, so why are his searches relevant? All top searches are at least 8 months to a year old.

I really wish there was a way to refine your searches. Like the trending button have options to change your search to “most recent” or “most popular”. Am I asking to much? Do you ever have problems searching @partiko?

Ok now on to @DTube. The same problem, but even worse. We are getting ready to to post some @DTube videos, so I decided to search on the @Dtube site. I searched Fortnite Montage. It’s says search result found, but nothing is there. I downloaded the DTube viewer app( I know it’s not affiliated with DTube) just to see, same result, nothing! Also says it’s powered by AskSteem Search by Hoxly, but when you click on the link it’s says “Thanks for stopping by. AskSteem and it’s API have been discontinued”. I couldn’t believe that there are no fortnite montages in DTube, just due to the popularity of the game. So I searched Steemit, low and behold I found fortnite montages, in DTube none the less. Although I couldn’t get them to play, which is a whole other problem with @Dtube. Which is the whole reason I haven’t posted any videos so far because I’m afraid they won’t even play. (Out of over 10 Fortnite Montages, I could not get one of them to play!?) So if I were to post anything and share it with others, it wouldn’t even play. Frustrating the people I have sent over to watch. The one good thing I can say about DTube is the ability to hide NSFW videos, wish this was an option on @partiko. Oh and I’m not calling for censorship. Just more family friendly options on partiko, since a lot of people have families. If we want these platforms to succeed, we have to cater to everyone! At least in my opinion!

Anyone else have these problems? I don’t mean to talk bad about these platforms, just trying to draw attention so hopefully they will be fixed!

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Do you think we may see @bricksmith78 make a return in the future?

I’m not to sure, I can always ask him!

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I had the same issue with Partiko and it's search function. I couldn't get Dtube to work at all. None of the videos I wanted to watch would load.

Hey Jason, glad to see you over here! Always, thanks for the love! Searches do stink,still. Also old DTube videos still have trouble loading. Everything newer works. All our newer videos work, would love to your thoughts on our fortnite videos! We love making them, we also love watching them😂😂. Also found out Partiko gives you upvote value when you post. (You have to post through partiko, and set the amount you want to use)

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The search function on Partiko is terrible

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I do agree with you on that. At the moment, YouTube still is the go to place for the latest videos. I have gone on dtube and it does need some fine tuning for the search engines. I do agree with a lot of the points you have mentioned. Yea, and the relevance of some videos. I guess, there is more to be done. It's just like the start of the early YouTube which at that time had limited videos and the video quality was kind of bad.

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Yea, I think we’ll still will support it. In hopes your right, that it’s just in it’s early stages.

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