Discord's search is astonishingly horrible. Users have been complaining for years about it, and it's not improving. This alone disqualifies it from being useful as documentation.
I came here to say this. There's so many things wrong with it:
1. If a user left the server, you can no longer specifically search for stuff they posted.
2. Even if a user is still in the server, it can still be hard to search for stuff they posted because Discord search seems to only sometimes know about all the current users.
3. It breaks if you search for something with a lot of hits, and try to go back to the first page (i.e. the earliest hits). For example it's not possible for me to jump to my first message in some servers.
4. Can't search within specific threads
5. Something about how the text search works itself has bothered me in the past, but I can't find a good example of what's wrong with it at the moment.
Discord's text search isn't exact, which can be a big problem sometimes. For instance, I was in a discord for a game mod recently which had questions asked about the terms 'element' and 'elemental', which were two very different topics. You simply can't narrow your search down to just one of those. Even searching for "elemental" brought up every usage of "element".
Because they expect you to lurk all day and chat, not search and get back to work. Engagement (wasting time) tends to be a desirable quality at these kinds of companies.
Why would Discord, a product created for gamers to chat/talk to each other while playing games, prioritize anyone's need to search and get back to work?
