What are the barriers to offering entity type-agnostic search? As in, a search bar where I can enter "Lúnasa" and it will give me back both the artist Lúnasa and their self-titled album.
[@leftmostcat:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/@leftmostcat:matrix.org) mostly a matter of supporting it on the search server (solr), currently each each entity is organized separately in its own collection. so in the current structure you would need to search all the collections separately and then combine the results which can be very inefficient, to do it more efficiently a new collection that has the data from all entities would be
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lucifer[m]
needed.
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<lucifer[m]> "[@leftmostcat:matrix.org](https:..." <- So configuration of solr (and sir, presumably) rather than any technical barriers with solr?
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lucifer[m]
<leftmostcat[m]> "So configuration of solr (and..." <- Won't know about the technical barriers until the configuration is done and we test it :)
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<lucifer[m]> "Won't know about the technical..." <- Fair!
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leftmostcat[m]
If no one is actively working on that, I may toy around with it.
