We talk a lot about how the Discovery algorithm can be improved for users.... I would like to add that *search* is also a core UX that needs help. Searches always seek new, relevant results—so "Top" and "Latest" are both wrong. I need closer to "Top latest" cc cc @alexbenzer.com @toni.bsky.team
Sep 25, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Fixing Search
Search on the web, for most people, has become a deplorable experience. It is such a key function that it can feel unfixable, but by treating search as an architectural component of the web (which it effectively is) and working our way through the issues it creates, we can define an alternative that is both realistic and superior.
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a purpose-built community search engine and how to use it
Paper page - Knowledge Navigator: LLM-guided Browsing Framework for Exploratory Search in Scientific Literature
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Improving discoverability is the key thing - which a hard ux problem to solve without defaulting to algorithms. Forced algorithms are a bad solution to what needs to actually happen which is actually getting people to engage with others which modern social media has beat out of people
Jim Ray
One of my long held convictions is most people don't care about concepts like "openness" or "decentralization" or "interoperability" (people are busy!) but they do care about what those enable. It's the job of the much smaller number of people who do care to build the experience people will love.
New demo version of atsearch.network is here 💃 quick recap: any AT Proto app can invent its own record type: scrobbles, books, photos, RPGs, etc... nothing searches across them so i built a search engine that reads your lexicon and figures out how to index you
If you have been using the atproto mcp server I released earlier this year it just got an overhaul. New embedded model, more accurate searches, background reindexing, and a few other goodies.
GitHub - Ashex/atproto-mcp
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