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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 14:49:15 JST Chris Trottier

   I just embedded a search engine into a #Calckey post.

   How did I do that?

   By typing the following line into a post:

   Calckey [search]

   Take a look for yourselves here:

   https://calckey.social/notes/9ehzd13dzh

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:09:20 JST Chris Trottier

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     How does anyone *not* get excited about the Fediverse when they discover you could embed a search engine - with pre-populated search terms -- into a status update?

     Did Twitter ever letter you do that?

     No, Twitter didn't even let you edit a post!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:14:12 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Emelia 👸🏻

     @thisismissem You do retrieve results, however.

     And it's awesome that this can even happen.

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     Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:14:13 JST Emelia 👸🏻

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     @atomicpoet unfortunately it doesn't work bug free:

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:16:34 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Mikko Husari

     @husku I can think of many reasons I might want to do something like this. For example, encouraging someone to go find out stuff for themselves (e.g., LMGTFY).

     But the point is, you can do it!

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     Mikko Husari (husku@eliitin-some.fi)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:16:35 JST Mikko Husari

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     @atomicpoet

     Why is that needed? What is the use case for such a feature?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:17:03 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Peter Jakobs ⛵

     @pjakobs Seeing is believing: https://calckey.social/notes/9ehzd13dzh

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     Peter Jakobs ⛵ (pjakobs@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:17:05 JST Peter Jakobs ⛵

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     @atomicpoet explain please. Most search engines use a GET request, embedding the search terms into the URI, so technically, I can put a predefined search anywhere I can put a URI. Am I missing something?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:27:06 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Peter Jakobs ⛵

     @pjakobs This is not a web frontend for Mastodon. #Calckey is something quite different.

     There's lots of other things you can do with Calckey, such as animations inside a status update.

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     Peter Jakobs ⛵ (pjakobs@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:27:08 JST Peter Jakobs ⛵

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     @atomicpoet ah, just saw your opening post on this - so I guess the Web frontend renders the search box right into the post?
     Interesting idea.
     Not sure what I would use it for, though. Also it seems it's a client side implementation

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     Peter Jakobs ⛵ (pjakobs@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:27:09 JST Peter Jakobs ⛵

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     @atomicpoet ok, I guess, this might be a client thing, but I don't see anything special here (in tusky)

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:34:43 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Chris ABRAHAM

     @chris No, Twitter became dead to me in March 2022.

     I'm so glad Twitter is dying.

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     Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 15:34:44 JST Chris ABRAHAM

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     @atomicpoet
     Feels like you really miss Twitter

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     FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 20:20:15 JST FeralRobots

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     @atomicpoet It's neat but I don't like it.
     1. If 'Calckey' is meant to be the label, that's a pattern with accessibility & usability problems.
     2. Don't really understand the pattern (see prev) - looks like 'Calckey' is meant to be the label but it ends up the search term [placeholder]. Put another way, doesn't behave like other shortcode patterns
     3. Expected behavior (which to me is 'search this site') doesn't match with actual behavior (which seems to be 'search default engine for this site').

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     sergio_101 (sergio_101@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 03:32:29 JST sergio_101

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     @atomicpoet so, i suppose i need to dig in and see what #Calckey is all about.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 03:42:03 JST Chris Trottier

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     • sergio_101

     @sergio_101 Why not, right? It's fun.

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     sergio_101 (sergio_101@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 03:43:16 JST sergio_101

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     @atomicpoet this might be the fun place to work my radio show into. Wondering if i can boost #Calckey posts via #mastodon

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 03:45:58 JST Chris Trottier

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     • sergio_101

     @sergio_101 You sure can. I do it all the time.