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Nouche
Add the ability to research for messages with a file that is NOT an image. It would simplify a lot of things when researching in channels with a huge history, while looking for a specific file. We usually mostly find images and it makes researching much more difficult in those cases.
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  • kyoko

    The images you send is a file. To discord you send unknown.png as you can see on the extension its a file. Thats why shows it shows images too. Implemeting this would take more work for the client. Scanning every file for wether it is or isnt a image

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  • imminiman
    • Edited

    @kyoko, because it's more work, does it mean it shouldn't be a thing?

    If we can search for only image files, I'm sure searching for only (not) image files isn't a lot more work.

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  • dhrumilp15
    • Edited

    I made a bot for this! You can search files by filename and I've implemented most of discord search's features (author, channel, before / after / during, message content) + more like file type! For your case, I think searching on filetype would be pretty useful?? lmk if you try this out again and we can probably work something out! 

    Add it to your server with this link:

    https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=837345172105723985&permissions=2147593280&scope=bot%20applications.commands

    Source: https://github.com/dhrumilp15/haystackfs

    (Also please let me know if there are bugs!! Feel free to leave an issue on the Github page or message me at dhrumilp15#4369)

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  • StreetwizeJJ2
    • Edited

    Sorry for bumping, but I was going to make a thread until I saw this.

    I'm surprised this still isn't a thing. "Scanning every file for whether it is or isn't an image" is already done for images, so that argument is moot. As a programmer myself, I understand many, many things are easier said than done. However, I do not believe people can always defend developers on the sole basis of "programming is hard". How hard is it to invert a condition as a new type of search? I highly doubt it'd be too complicated or work-intensive on the client.

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  • Samwow

    Can this please be a thing, scanning 700 memes for 10-20 files is exhausting

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