"Discord's search function is so bad it's essentially unusable"
Discord's search function is 1,000x better than what's built into Windows 10 and 11. I've found pictures I posted from years ago in discord, Windows 10 can't even find half the files I downloaded and transferred to another drive the other day.
That is to say, Discord's search actually works. It may not work great, but it will find all posts containing the word "dog" when you search for it. The search in windows explorer, on reddit and on most forums will often fail to find an item even if you search for its exact name. Last I tried it, windows explorer couldn't find a file in the folder I was already viewing. It's impressive.
There we go, another perfect example: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk. Search for "walkers". Enjoy two pages of Walkers products randomly intermixed with other crisps. You'd like the "Walkers Baked" variety? Searching for that returns 2 results, instead of the expected 4+. Example missing result: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/walkers-baked-se.... Now try searching for "Walkers Baked Ready", different UI (???), same two results, but this time what we're looking for is in the "suggested related products".
How do companies tolerate such obviously awful search experiences?
> I've found pictures I posted from years ago in discord, Windows 10 can't even find half the files I downloaded and transferred to another drive the other day.
That sounds like indexing settings, on your end, are not sufficient for your use cases. I suggest decreasing the interval between indexing on your machine.
If indexing is correctly setup in windows any/all files will be immediately searchable and indexed.
Discord's search function is 1,000x better than what's built into Windows 10 and 11. I've found pictures I posted from years ago in discord, Windows 10 can't even find half the files I downloaded and transferred to another drive the other day.