How To Use the New Chatroom Feature

How To Use the New Chatroom Feature

SEARCH

Dust off the ole' magnifying glass

To start searching, just click the search bar in the upper right-hand corner of the app:

 

 

You can also hotkey your way to search success within the currently-viewed channel by pressing ctrl + F (Win) or cmd + F (Mac). Opening the search bar will bring up a window with some search filter suggestions:

 

Let's break down the different filters and how to use them while searching:

 

Filter Fun

Typing any one of the filter keywords or selecting them in the dropdown in the search box will use that filter in your next search, as indicated by the dark background on the word:

 

Search has four different filters you can use to peruse old messages. They are:

 

From: Use the From filter to narrow down your search results to a specific user. (Good place to start!) 

 

Has: The Has filter will let you search for messages that have links, attachments, or embeds within them. If you want to search through all of those formats for all videos or images, you can choose one of the more specific filters, video, image, or sound, specifically. If you're looking for all of the media-containing messages in your server, you can chain two of the filters together, allowing you to search for all messages containing either of the two filters.

 

In: Using the In filter will allow you to select which channels within your currently open server you want to search through. Typing this filter tag will pull up a dropdown menu of the accessible text channels in the server you currently have open.

 

Before & After: These tags allow you to search chronologically and pull up an interactive calendar to choose the starting date of the search. You can combine both Before and After filters to search within a range of dates as well. Chronological filters aren't just limited to specific dates, you can also choose days of the week (before: Monday), weeks (before: Week), or months (after: May) depending on what you're looking for.

 

Search filters are also stackable, allowing you to use more than one in a search to zoom in a little more and find exactly what you're looking for. For instance, I can use from: Nelly#1234 to find everything she's said in the server, but I can add in:#general to find everything she's said in the general channel!

 

 

Narrow it down

Once you've narrowed down your search query, you'll see the list of results populate in the side menu.

 

 

You can choose between sorting the search results based on recency, which will sort the results starting with the most recent message that fits the criteria, or relevancy, which will sort the results based on the closest match to what you were searching for.

 

 

If you've found what you're looking for, you can click the Jump button in the top-right corner of the message when the icon appears. 

 

 

And that's it! Don't forget that each server you search will be indexed all the way back to the beginning of each channel, so you can find any message typed all the way back to the beginning of the server. Larger servers may take a little bit longer to comb all the way through all of the messages, but once they've been indexed, you won't run into the same wait.

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