Is there a way to allow personal messages that you have sent or received to show up in the global search results? or to toggle this option on/off? I figured out that you could type in a keyword from a message and then: in: messages which will search your messages. The average user wouldn’t know th…

[image] jord8on: The average user wouldn’t know that. They aren’t supposed to — mixing PMs and regular posts In search results would be very unexpected.

[image] jord8on: The average user wouldn’t know that. There are a lot of nice options at /search; it’s difficult to explain all the options in a search popup modal, ya know?

Yeah I can see where you’re coming from. For my, likely outlier, use case with a coach working with people on the daily it could be nice to see those messages included in the search. But for the most part I don’t think others use their communities in this way. I personally rarely ever DM here in t…

Allow messages to show up in global search

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) April 14, 2020, 9:10pm 3

They aren’t supposed to — mixing PMs and regular posts In search results would be very unexpected.

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Allow messages to show up in global search

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