willow: "did u know that search indexes words from the first 1k characters only"

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willow @dreary.dev

did u know that search indexes words from the first 1k characters only

willowJun 24, 2025

also i won’t be this greedy but image alt text is valid (and displayed in social-app) beyond 2k but not indexed for searching

June 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM

willowJun 28, 2025

if a poor guy gets caught at the 1k mark he's snapped in half and the first half is still searchable

willowJun 28, 2025

tho u do get 4 images, so its kinda like 4300 chars max