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I came here to say this. There's so many things wrong with it: 1. If a user left the server, you can no longer specifically search for stuff they posted. 2. E
by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I came here to say this. There's so many things wrong with it:
1. If a user left the server, you can no longer specifically search for stuff they posted.
2. Even if a user is still in the server, it can still be hard to search for stuff they posted because Discord search seems to only sometimes know about all the current users.
3. It breaks if you search for something with a lot of hits, and try to go back to the first page (i.e. the earliest hits). For example it's not possible for me to jump to my first message in some servers.
4. Can't search within specific threads
5. Something about how the text search works itself has bothered me in the past, but I can't find a good example of what's wrong with it at the moment.
- drabiega 3y agoDiscord's text search isn't exact, which can be a big problem sometimes. For instance, I was in a discord for a game mod recently which had questions asked about the terms 'element' and 'elemental', which were two very different topics. You simply can't narrow your search down to just one of those. Even searching for "elemental" brought up every usage of "element".
- atribecalledqst 3y agoYes, that's exactly it. The search is greedy and even partial hits (or hits with the word order not matching your search, etc.) will show up.