Yes there are PoC techniques out there. How do they stand up in practical circumstances though? Who's using any of these techniques at scale and what's the UX like? Something that's very nice about TG search is that it stems the terms, so if for example I search for "deleted", I also get results containing "deletes" and "delete". There is also search by username and by date. How would those be affected?
Why would I want to maintain a local index? How much of my compute and storage will it take? How well will it work across all my devices and clients (I have 3 clients just on my phone)? I personally am a part of over 700 conversions, some having millions of messages, and many of which I rarely interact with, but when I do, I know I have easy, instant access. It sounds highly inconvenient that I should have to constantly maintain any of that for the few times I may want to dive in to check on something and get out again. Might as well those conversations never existed in the first place.
And of course these considerations aren't just for me, but the nearly 1 billion users of the platform.
Why would I want to maintain a local index? How much of my compute and storage will it take? How well will it work across all my devices and clients (I have 3 clients just on my phone)? I personally am a part of over 700 conversions, some having millions of messages, and many of which I rarely interact with, but when I do, I know I have easy, instant access. It sounds highly inconvenient that I should have to constantly maintain any of that for the few times I may want to dive in to check on something and get out again. Might as well those conversations never existed in the first place.
And of course these considerations aren't just for me, but the nearly 1 billion users of the platform.