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Possible bug preventing chat room message search

It seems that the chat room search feature is not working. The search result always displays "0 messages found". It is not displaying messages that contain the search query, even if those ...
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Chat search returning no results

Searching for anything on chat.Meta, chat.SE, or chat.SO is currently coming up with zero results (including words that I know have hits because I've searched for them before, such as the name of my D&...
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Chat search is returning no results

Searching any Stack Exchange chatroom doesn't seem to work at the moment. For example, the word "this" certainly appears in The Nineteenth Byte but https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=this&...
Calvin's Hobbies's user avatar
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I can't search for messages written by myself

I don't know if it's because I recently changed my name, or whether my current name is too short, but I can't search for messages by either my old name or new name:
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Impossible to search for usernames with punctuation in chat

When you do a search in chat, the punctuation is removed. For example, searching T.E.D. gives me everyone with /ted/i, but it doesn't catch the one user named T.E.D.. The same thing goes for searching ...
Manishearth's user avatar
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6 votes
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Chat search is broken again

I can't perform a search on chat for something I said. It just takes forever, and after forever has passed, the 500 lolcat pops up. Here's an example: https://chat.stackoverflow.com/search?q=chat+...
R. Martinho Fernandes's user avatar
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1 answer
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Chat search fails to load page 2

I can't seem to be able to load page 2 of some chat searches. For example this one: https://chat.stackoverflow.com/search?q=chat+search+sucks&user=46642&room=10. I just get the cat workin on ...
R. Martinho Fernandes's user avatar
19 votes
1 answer
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More powerful chat search

The chat search function seems to be quite limited. For example, searching for "ask different" produces results where the post contains either "ask" or "different". As these are very common words, it'...
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Will chat be searchable?

Will relevant chats be listed when performing a search from the top of a meta stackoverflow page? Will there be a way to limit this just to active chats?
srcerer's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
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Don't have a separate page for chat searching

Clicking the search link on any page opens a new window/tab with a tiny search box on the left, leaving the rest of the page unused. Can we get it to show in a little box instead, and open the new ...
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