From 3f41a48bc759f532db63b51a60e03f466043ca08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory McWilliams <cory@unprompted.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 12:16:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ssb: Use message refs to get channel contents, not full-text
 search.  Much faster for certain channels.

---
 apps/ssb.json                | 2 +-
 apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js | 7 +++----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/ssb.json b/apps/ssb.json
index dbeb8ecf..d6538d98 100644
--- a/apps/ssb.json
+++ b/apps/ssb.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
 	"type": "tildefriends-app",
 	"emoji": "🦀",
-	"previous": "&j9NkLFuUOfxQhgR6Z3fA4kCWRY1Dcv+7AIAaoaffiBU=.sha256"
+	"previous": "&Bpf8wmdsVYGPSBduytapHM7XHz2iCGfaysVHfEKYK/s=.sha256"
 }
diff --git a/apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js b/apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js
index df6d15c2..e3eda0ac 100644
--- a/apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js
+++ b/apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js
@@ -177,10 +177,10 @@ class TfTabNewsFeedElement extends LitElement {
 								WHERE messages.content ->> 'channel' = ?4
 							UNION
 							SELECT messages.rowid, messages.id, messages.previous, messages.author, messages.sequence, messages.timestamp, messages.hash, json(messages.content) AS content, messages.signature
-								FROM messages_fts(?5)
-								JOIN messages ON messages.rowid = messages_fts.rowid
+								FROM messages_refs
+								JOIN messages ON messages.id = messages_refs.message
 								JOIN json_each(?1) AS following ON messages.author = following.value
-								JOIN json_tree(messages.content, '$.mentions') AS mention ON mention.value = '#' || ?4
+								WHERE messages_refs.ref = '#' || ?4
 							)
 					SELECT TRUE AS is_primary, all_news.* FROM all_news
 						WHERE (?2 IS NULL OR all_news.timestamp >= ?2) AND all_news.timestamp < ?3
@@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ class TfTabNewsFeedElement extends LitElement {
 					start_time,
 					end_time,
 					this.hash.substring(2),
-					'"#' + this.hash.substring(2).replace('"', '""') + '"',
 				]
 			);
 			let t1 = new Date();