Well done and thank you. Not just for the work, but for the attitude and courage of your convictions that come across clearly in your comments here on HN. Sear

Well done and thank you. Not just for the work, but for the attitude and courage of your convictions that come across clearly in your comments here on HN. Search is presently a neighbourhood of technology that's fallen into a downtrodden ghetto. Maybe you've sowed some seeds that can grow between the cracks. But I think there are gangs and pushers roaming the streets that would be happy for it remain derelict. Thinking about the dynamics of open source, with respect to the many different interpretations of search that create tension within such a project: It occurs to me that whenever a somewhat mature project enters the ecosystem a robust strategy is to immediately clone-fork multiple identical copies of a project. This is like a "backup strategy". From there, form several loosely coordinated project groups that can spread risk, share threat intelligence, but each work with different models of crawling, filtering, funding, presentation and so on. Keep the original as an upstream parent. One of the children may survive.