I tried a couple of years ago, but it kept crashing after a day or two. Not sure if I set it up wrong or something?
Currently running searx-ng, which I quite like.
I haven't used yacy in a whole, but i had configured it to auto import and index links from linkding. I also imported my browser history to get started.
Never tried the p2p option though so not sure how well that worked. I was worried about indexing private sites on accident .
In general, to everyone who finds Yacy as an interesting project, just give it a try!
It's relatively light weight, and having millions of pages indexed does not take that much disk space, in my case: 3.5 million indexed pages is around 200 gigabytes only.
Yacy is far from perfect, and it's an ancient project. But it's still alive and kicking strong!
I was just looking into this yesterday. I'd love to hear if it's worth the hassle. People seem to be 50/50 on its long-term usefulness, "just use _____!"
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phanto@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
I tried a couple of years ago, but it kept crashing after a day or two. Not sure if I set it up wrong or something? Currently running searx-ng, which I quite like.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I've had more luck finally throwing docker on it and letting it sit on an excising yunohost.
zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi · 5 pts · 1y
Hi!
I've been selfhosting Yacy for some years, even tho I rarely use it (I'm mostly using Kagi these days).
But some tips:
And not directly Yacy related, but you can use your own Yacy through Searxng as well, even in 'private'(non P2P) mode.
johntash@eviltoast.org · 2 pts · 1y
I haven't used yacy in a whole, but i had configured it to auto import and index links from linkding. I also imported my browser history to get started.
Never tried the p2p option though so not sure how well that worked. I was worried about indexing private sites on accident .
zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi · 1 pts · 1y
In general, to everyone who finds Yacy as an interesting project, just give it a try!
It's relatively light weight, and having millions of pages indexed does not take that much disk space, in my case: 3.5 million indexed pages is around 200 gigabytes only.
Yacy is far from perfect, and it's an ancient project. But it's still alive and kicking strong!
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
Neat, will try it out.
Has anyone written an android desktop search widget for it? A quick search only foumd one veeery old experimental project.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
That would be cool. Closest I have is just a pinned link via Firefox.
anthony@lemmy.cif.su · 1 pts · 1y
You also could make it the default search engine in the settings menu. Also works on desktop.
LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
I was just looking into this yesterday. I'd love to hear if it's worth the hassle. People seem to be 50/50 on its long-term usefulness, "just use _____!"