diaspora/diaspora — Issue #2187: search for users on all known pods
Author: KaiMartin
Created: 2011-10-15 00:31:15+00:00
State: open

Currently, the search for users spans only the local pod. That way, the group of diaspora users is effectively fragmented by pod login. This makes for a frustrating feeling of emptiness for users on less populated servers. Unless they tell me via mail, or some other communication channel I may never get to know, which of people I know have already converted to diaspora. Since the whole project is about connecting people, this is hardly desirable.

IMHO, this is a feature that is crucial for the decentralized server concept to succeed. Else people would either migrate to the most popular pod or leave completely. I'd expect global search to be a priority mile stone before diaspora is declared beta.