Comment by [deleted] on 24/10/2018 at 00:39 UTC

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There are aspects of this implementation that I feel are unintuitive / tedious. Some examples from r/Fitness modmail that illustrate this:

Searching for the username "doctor_awful" returns a message from the user "doctor_awful" at the top, and a bunch of other messages containing the words "doctor" and "awful". If I searched for the words "doctor" and "awful" separately, I would expect this behavior, but not when they are connected with an underscore. Putting "doctor_awful" in quotes when searching correctly returns only the message from the user (as does, of course, using the message_author prefix, but using that is tedious).
Searching for "HopefullNugget" returns 0 results, despite there being a message from user "HopefullNugget95". If I search for "HopefullNugget95", this message is returned. Compared with the above, this is not intuitive. The search is "smart" enough to break words up when connected with an underscore and search the full text of messages for them, but *not* smart enough to do partial matching on usernames?
If I search for my own username, the search only returns messages that contain my username. It does not return any messages that I have sent. Compared with the above, this continues to be unintuitive. The search knows to return messages that were sent by the users "doctor_awful" and "HopefullNugget95" when I search for them, but not for messages I send? I assume this discrepancy is because I am a mod, but nonetheless it does not make sense.

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Thanks for the insightful feedback. This is our v1. I care about our mods, and I’ll see how much I can do for our v2.