# Introducing chat search

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-chat-search/385755
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** search, chat
**Created:** [November 5, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-chat-search/385755 "2025-11-05T16:26:07Z")
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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2025, 6:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-chat-search/385755/30 "2025-11-22T06:02:26Z")

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If you updated quite recently, your chat messages could still be indexing.

> [@lindsey](#):
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> After updating to the latest version of Discourse, a background job will run to index your chat messages and make them available to search. Until this process is complete (which can take multiple days for communities with lots of chat messages), some messages may not show up in chat yet.

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