How hard is it to implement search functionality on a website, say an image board?

Not that hard.

>>105653128 (OP)
a moot point.

>>105653131
What can prevent a team working on the hypothetical website, say image board, from implementing it?
>>105653161
I disagree, it is quite useful for finding topics that you enjoy.

>>105653244
>What can prevent a team working on the hypothetical website, say image board, from implementing it?
Nothing.

>>105653128 (OP)
Not very considering it was there pre-hack, the button for it is STILL in the top right of this very page you're looking at and now just goes to the 404 page

>>105653542
Small indie company please understand

>>105653542
It's just the wrong URL.

>>105653617
Uhm...What is the correct one?

>>105653128 (OP)
Just stand up an elasticsearch cluster. It's literally already done for you: https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/elastic/elasticsearch

>>105653657
https://find.4chan.org/?q=search+functionality

What do you mean implement? It's already fucking there

>>105653669
Mein Gott.
Why aren't they linking the stupid search button properly?

A serious answer, since my project has users and their search is a large part of the load.

>imageboard
When it's say 15 threads on 10 pages, 250-max messages per thread ~38k posts, searching through that is trivial with SQlite and a $20 server can handle tons of searches per second without any special accommodations, performance wise.

>how hard
Trivial, if you can write a imageboard you can do it in 5min

>>105653737
There were 2 different ones before. One for desktop and one for mobile. Now there's just 1 for both.
Most of 4chan's functions aren't linked.