LBRY is a promising project that aims to make content hosting easy and profitable for everyone. You download the app, you earn LBC for mining or consuming featured content and you pay LBC for hosting it. But.
I have to say this: the LBRY search engine is useless.
The search feature has become the core element in web or software interface design, it's hard to imagine a site these days that wouldn't benefit from a search field. All it's supposed to do is to process your request for content and instantly give you such content.
The huge bar at the top of the LBRY app hints it's meant just for that. But instead of content it gives you a bunch of empty directories or channels in response (some of them - completely unrelated). Plus if you hit enter you go directly to the location and wonder why it's so empty in there. Even in file managers (Windows, Macos, Gnome, Kde, etc) the search field and file path are separated. I constantly update LBRY to see if the search feature has been improved but every time I look for content I know is 100% there, it gives me a bunch of directories or even worse - no results at all. How can we expect this technology to go mainstream if user interaction lacks the most basic user friendly search feature?
The sole reason LBRY currently works at all as a platform is because it has a front page with all the featured content and people sharing links to their content outside the programm, i.e. by relying on other search engines - Reddit, Steemit, Twitter, Google, Duckduckgo.
I believe, fixing the LBRY search engine should be the top priority for the team.
