Exact search
Exact search would be nice to have, even as a filter, like exact:word.
Reasoning: Scenario 1 - I'm proofreading a novel, or website, or game text, or whatever. Submissions on a specific discord server (a couple of thousand so far). I find a misspelled common word. I'd like to check if it was already submitted: I can't, because due to approximate results thrown out, I literally get hundreds of results. All the other filters are useless in this case.
Scenario 2 - I'm moderating a server. I want to search the chat log for some words that we don't tolerate on the server. Some words throw out approximate results, again potentially thousands of them. Current filters useless again.
I'm sure there are other uses for this too. I'd also like to point out, that I'm not asking for partial vs exact word recognition, like 'dog' being found in 'doge', I'm talking about approximate vs exact word, like 'hers' found for 'heroes'.
If you'd like to see this implemented sooner rather than later, link the post in your discord groups, so others can come here and drop an upvote too - they'll only take it seriously if it reaches a few thousand votes.
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Scenario 3: I'm part of a team developing a game involving animals. I wanted to look up the solution to an animation issue I had a month ago. Discord decides that "animal" is close enough to "animation" and returns a lot of results which have nothing to do with animation whatsoever.
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Yeah. I'm looking for a specific conversation in which someone referred to "accountant". I absolutely, positively, do not care about hundreds of other conversations referring to "accounts".
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Allow me to chime in wishing for exact search. Trying to search for "blacked" gets me every time someone said "black", which isn't very helpful.
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Wtf why does this not exist??? I'm looking for the word "animation" but I just get a million results about anime. This is ridiculous!
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Exact search would be nice. Another usecase, I was searching for the last time a particular command was used, searched for "!commandname" but got thousands of results with the commandname without the exclamation mark.
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Yeah, this keeps being an issue for me.
For instance, literally just now I'm doing some D&D stuff, and looking for the word "Summoner" which is not the word "summoning".
It's been a while, Discord. Surely it can't be that hard to do.18 -
I'm trying to look for help regarding statues in an RPG and Discord helpfully returns every instance of the word "status".
This isn't even a common misspelling, it's a completely different word. What a useless feature.
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tried to find "oh for the love of," found a bunch of "oh lovely"
that's not even close
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I can't look up my own real name (which is a normal spelling of an English-language name) without getting results for something a few letters off. Makes it really hard to find times when someone was talking to me but didn't @mention.
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This idiocy apparently extends to the website as well. I tried to search for "audit" right here in the feedback section, and it returns results containing "audio". Because clearly those two are the same thing, I mean there's only a single letter difference. I will just make a new post and let you guys figure out if it's a duplicate or not.
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I would really like to see this.
I don't see the practical purpose of the current search's 'change the terms' idea. If I want to look for the word 'jump' in search, I do not want a result without 'jump' in it. This includes 'jumping', 'jumped' etc. If I wanted to search for those words, I would have entered them into the search bar. The point of searching should be to find the word(s) that were entered into the search bar, nothing more, nothing less.
Please don't pull a Google over at discord. Don't make the program think it knows what people are looking for. The whole correction/context/tense thing is obnoxious and adds nothing of value. It rather makes searching impossible because there's no way to tell Discord to omit things I never wanted to search for in the first place.
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I'm trying to look if anyone found a solution to my issue with "controller". Nope, discord can't let me search for controller and throws out every other variant of a word "control" instead.
Why can't they even do basic thing right, like a proper bloody search !?
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There are some strange stemming issues too, like from words that shouldn't actually be stemmed.
- "simulant" (a game engine, and also a specific Blade Runner term) produces results for "simulate", "simulation" - in a programming server, this produces way too many results
- "c++" literally retrieves every post with the letter "c" and highlights each instance of that letter, so there is no actual way to search for the programming language c++; adding quotes or spaces does nothing
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When I want to search for where a specifc command was used, such as <!help>, I get many results for "help", which means I see mostly "help me".
This would fix that
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In a 3D printing server I’m on, people talk about ABS filament and ABS+ filament. ABS is about 100 times more popular than ABS+, but when I search for “ABS+”, I get results for “ABS” as well, so about 99% of the search results are incorrect. Please improve search.
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A year later and there isn't a fix yet? Seriously?
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It seems like it would be harder to code the "inexact matches included" search that we have now. I don't see any reason why exact search wasn't an option when the ability to search posts came out in the first place.
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Exact search would be incredible. The bigger problem is the fact that Discord completely ignores short words, so searching for a phrase like "and for a while it will" only returns messages with the word "while" in them.
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Exact search isn't just nice, it's essential. Search should behave like Google - exact search for anything inside quotation marks.
Discord's lack of exact search is a problem. For servers with a large message history, the fuzzy search makes rare words that are similar to common words unsearchable. I have occasionally found myself in the situation where I export the entire message history just so that I can use a program such as Notepad to perform an exact search.
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I can't find what I'm looking for; the search function is absolute crap.
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the fact that searching something in "quotations" doesn't include only and exactly the word or phrase you're searching for is really surprising to me... and even more surprising is that it's still the exact same after all this time.
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What a joke.
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I'm in a help discord for electronics. When I want to look for "AT commands" to see if anyone else had a similar problem as me, I just get returned every instance of the word command, which naturally returns thousands of results that aren't worth sifting through.
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I'm trying to search "excel" as in "excel spreadsheet". Not "excellent".
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How is this not a thing? I google searched wondering why "Quote Search" didn't bring up exact results, and ended up here seeing it's a tbc feature request.
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Tried to find one time when I said "helpful". It brought up a half dozen pages where I said "help". That is not "helpful".
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Nothing like searching for "IED module" in an Arma discord and getting every single instance that a person said "I". What a worthless search function.
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Seriously? This is still an issue to resolve? >>>><<<<<
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Another scenario: On a video-gaming Discord, searching for "Ballade" (a minor character in the Mega Man series) also yields results for "Ballad". That "e" is there on purpose, Discord! Fuzzy search may have its uses but it's frustrating for those who want a more exacting function and can't get one!
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One more scenario: While looking for specific offers such as "for x", it would show me searches that have "x" in them. Tried doing "for+x" in:#channel, still didn't work. Please add this feature.
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