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Discord search is horrendous. The chat and threads are nice, but finding previous messages can be difficult. I feel like there's a opportunity here for someone to make a similar platform with far better search.


But there already is one. It's called a forum :)


What do you mean? Its search is zippy af and the filters you can apply help narrow messages down very well


It's the lack of verbatim search. I can't plonk an error message in quotes and have Discord return only comments with that. Instead I'm inundated with irrelevant comments.

This wouldn't be a problem if so many things didn't use Discord for support. It's being overloaded as a knowledge base, support forum, and community when it doesn't handle any of these functions well.


It is called Discourse and it is far better.


I rather like Discord search and found it to be fast and reliable to use.


Discord search is pretty standard, you can do much worse. Especially at their scale.


Standard in what way? It can't even do partial matches or words with close spelling. It's pretty much exact whole words only or nothing.


Which, is pretty standard..


On what platform? Every single social media app I use has some form of partial matching in the search boxes.




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