Gregory's ServerThough VK's version also works correctly if you type your query in a wrong keyboard layout. As in, "jktu" when you meant "олег". VK can do this trivially since 99% of its target audience has two known keyboard layouts — English QWERTY and Russian ЙЦУКЕН. I can't do it this easily... I'll be especially clueless if you set your language to English, which some Russians actually do.
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 One more Smithereen-specific thing I forgot to mention. When you load a post like that, it'll actually fetch the entire thread for you. I made a parallel comment thread downloader. @a1batross when comment threads are incomplete, it's a terrible user experience. And I'm not the kind of developer who would settle for a terrible user experience due to some technical peculiarities that the users couldn't care less about.  @grishka sounds like it could be a useful setting nonetheless. maybe with a switch that instead checks the ukrainian, belarusian, greek and other relatively static non-latin kbd layouts @devurandom that's certainly an option, but would you really convert every string you receive into 20 different keyboard layouts just in case? That could also lead to some mysterious false-positive search results. @grishka @devurandom maybe ask user to list languages they know in settings and then convert? That information could be useful in future.
I'm not insisting on that feature though, just a random idea. @grishka not asking for all searches to be run with every possible layout, but just to add a separate user setting that goes [✓] Search keyboard layout correction: [ Russian ↓ ] and then you get to pick whichever layout you commonly use. this could also be helpful in that searches mistakenly typed in that layout could be converted to english.  @grishka  @grishka Hmm, You can handle only QWERTY, ЙЦУКЕН. I think it'll be a nice UX for Russian users and it'll be kind of expected for other users so nothing too bad. Facebook, for example, doesn't handle even ЙЦУКЕН |
Yep it still does that after all these years.