TIL you can quickly find you own posts by including "from:me" in the search box and then a key word or phrase you're searching for. Yes, it took me this long to figure that out.
@briankrebs Is it possible this only works on some instances and/or from certain versions onwards?
@cweickhmann
Yes. At mine for example, it doesn't work anymore, because it consumed so many resources, iirc
@briankrebs
@cweickhmann @briankrebs I meanwhile switched to downloading my posts and searching with a text editor.
@Flominator I was about to propose have them shipped to the browser and search them client side (which is basically what you do). But doesn’t that consume just as much if not more resources?
This probably only works because for most people it’s too complicated and they - like me - simply don’t try.
(I totally see the reason why instances don’t allow it: after all it’s costly, and users usually don’t chip in.)
@briankrebs
@cweickhmann Yeah I don't have any experience with other instances, so I was speaking only about this server -- infosec.exchange. Several others have chimed in to say it's not the same on their server.