Search exclusions

Nelly
I would love to see a feature in search for exclusions, Stuff like: not-from: user not-in: channel not-during: date etc. I find that a lot of times I know what I don't want to find. And having exclusion filters would be an easy way to filter out the extra noise.
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  • Sonicwave

    This would be especially useful for servers that have bot feeds or spam channels.

    42
  • criptixo

    this is going to make searching way more easier in a lot of situations.

    14
  • voiden.

    Maybe even a programming-like syntax. For example, you can type from:user to get messages from that person, but what if you could type not from:person or something similar for the opposite effect?

    10
  • Anonyx

    yes, strongly agree. I just really want to be able to search for symbols in chat..

    8
  • moronwmachinegun

    Exact match searching would be good. "ring on it" returns dozens of hits for "ring" burying the "ring on it" comment I was looking for.

     

    8
  • RogueSakura

    I want it. so much easier and it avoids the agony of remembering exactly what you're looking for (aka the exact words of part of the message you're searching for), but not getting exactly that result... 

    7
  • Anonyx

    @Saku, I'm not sure you understand what OP means by symbols. We're not talking about letters— we're talking about things like !@#$%^&*();,{}[]<>. None of these will show up in search. Searching for something as basic as a comma gives no results.

    6
  • weaver

    a good way to rework this would be to add a 'not' or '-' modifier, ie you could do a search that is [ hello -user#1000 ] to find all messages with 'hello' except those from a user, but also be able to do a search with [ has:link -youtube.com ] if you were looking for a non-youtube link, or [ from:user#100 -hello ] if you were looking for all messages from a user *except* ones that have hello in them.

    5
  • Ginrikuzuma

    I desperately feel the same way

    either doing something like !from: or not-from: or -from: to exclude say bot spam would be very valuable

    5
  • JohnSmith777779

    Imagine listening to the people...

    5
  • 󠂪󠂪

    Yesss. This would be so useful

    4
  • noony

    Like a parameter of NOT in:#general ?

    4
  • merennulli

    @undermaster - they use a dictionary-based search rather than a partial match search. So if you search for "PLA" you will only get exact match results (ie. "I'm using PLA today" would match, "PLAstic" would not match), if you search "PLAN", you get words like "planning" and "planned", but not "planet" or "plank".

    I'm honestly not sure why they went with a dictionary-based search since that's actually more work for worse results.

    4
  • Ginrikuzuma

    How its been over 3 years since this has been suggested and discord hasn't added this is beyond me. This feels like it should be such a simple thing to add.

    4
  • RogueSakura

    @Kierel Shan, my bad. I really did misunderstand.

    Yes, I really want that feature too. that explains why some of my searches wouldn't give me what I want... never realized it was because of the basic symbols ^^

    3
  • Yoshi

    So maybe Discord could implement Regex in their search?

    3
  • ThoughtJunky🧢

    I would really love to have boolean operators. 🙏

    3
  • CaikSlyce

    Discord's search desperately needs this feature.
    There are times where I don't want to see messages from a channel or thread (especially made for bots or spam) but instead, one keyword is enough to bombard me with copypastas from a thread I muted and have never interacted with nor plan to.

    3
  • S_h_a_r_k_93

    Exactly, being able to exclude results "from: bot-user" would be beneficial in some scenarios

    3
  • Patros36

    Imagine implementing useful features instead of more ads for Nitro.

    3
  • almostsuspense
    i love this idea!!!!
    2
  • almostsuspense
    that would be useful
    2
  • Yourself

    Possibly even accept regex in search

    2
  • Darkstepan

    +1

    2
  • Macker

    +1

    2
  • ᲼᲼᲼᲼

    exactly what I'm talking about

    2
  • deleted acc ()

    !!! this is especially helpful when searching on big servers as discord's search is already so imprecise and I have to search through 10s of pages of messages with /similar/ phrases before it "drops the magnifying glass" . Hopefully they will also allow searching for specific phrases as well (including punctuation) using quote marks like google search does

    2
  • Ender

    +1 why is this not implemented

    2
  • afleischer

    +1,000,000 here. Sifting through bot channel results for human responses on a search term is - how the French say - "not fun".

    2
  • ScaryBoover

    Search exclusion should've been a feature since the birth of Discord, how it still isn't implemented especially after this 4 year thread of people requesting it is beyond me.

    Discord Devs – I'll even pay someone on Fiverr to produce the code so you can just simply copy and paste it in if you're really that lazy.

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