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As long as their search feature continues being so monumentally terrible to the point where you can't even reliably search for specific words(and straight up is
by philippejara 4y ago
As long as their search feature continues being so monumentally terrible to the point where you can't even reliably search for specific words(and straight up is unable to search for exact strings[0]) I doubt any kind of forum-like usage will be pleasant.
[0]: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043045592-Exact-search https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600430...
- thrdbndndn 4y agoDiscord's search definitely has lots of space for improvement, but it's already among the best in all these new IM services. For example, Telegram has it 10 times worse than Discord. It (roughly) can only search whole words, which basically means it doesn't work with East Asian languages at all (since they don't have spaces between words).
- airstrike 4y agoProbably worth pointing out that Whatsapp has near perfect search. I can go into any group chat and search for words and quickly skip to some reference from 5 years ago, then reply to that message
- Night_Thastus 4y agoI've had the opposite experience. I've been thoroughly impressed with how I can search a word and find all instances of it going back months and months. It can do somewhat fuzzy searching too which is huge.
- acedTrex 4y agoDiscord search? terrible? I've been ludicrously impressed with it over the years. one of my favorite discord features