Problem with Discord webhook

[gleaming trellis]

Hello, I have a personal minecraft plugin that uses a Discord webhook to send messages to a channel of a discord server. Everything is fine, it's just that when I try to search the message sent (e.g. hello) in the search options of the server it does not appear. I'm using a public github (don't remember the author) to use the webhook with embed, etc. Please help!

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[nimble latch]

...not sure why you're asking here?

this likely isn't anything to do with the implementation of the webhook at all

[gleaming trellis]

Becasue maybe it's a problem of the code i think D:

[nimble latch]

no, everything's just on discord there

try that again, maybe try copy-pasting the username or trying other messages/other parts of the message in case there are some non-ascii characters there you aren't seeing

or just try searching in the channel plainly; the webhook messages should show up

[dull aurora]

I think the underscores could be the issue

try with spaces maybe

[nimble latch]

well there's your answer

[gleaming trellis]

This is other webhook, not mine, that uses my name and logo, but it finds it

I don't know why

[dull aurora]

.

[gleaming trellis]

im gonna try that

[nimble latch]

just discord not being able to find the message
probably because the content just doesn't match tbh

[gleaming trellis]

this is with underscore

still finds it

😔

[nimble latch]

have you tried copying the name directly

[gleaming trellis]

yes, that's what I did

[nimble latch]

from testing, looks like it is on discord's end. just doing a_a_a in a codeblock makes it just not show up in search, ever

[gleaming trellis]

It's weird, even without codeblocks it didn't show up months ago, now it finds it

so the problem is codeblocks... But why the other webhook works but not mine D:

[nimble latch]

well, that's not the problematic content...

[dull aurora]

try copying the content of a message 1:1

[nimble latch]

uh so having 1 underscore and searching with a space kinda works?

but 2 underscores means it just does not show up (0 results, kinda thing.)

it's not an issue of your webhook.

it's an issue on discord's end, with discord's search feature.

[gleaming trellis]

shows the ones without codeblocks

with a search with spaces included

what a headache

[gleaming trellis]

what is "discord's end"?

[nimble latch]

ok so discord's search is really buggy with formatting characters that aren't formatted apparently

[nimble latch]

the issue is with discord's code, not your code

[gleaming trellis]

got it

But as i showed you, it affects just me, no the others webhooks

that makes me think that the problem is from me

[nimble latch]

the other webhooks don't have formatting characters that aren't formatted

in the same way that's triggering the bug, apparently

you're stuck in confirmation bias right now

[dull aurora]

you could maybe try only searching for a part of it

[nimble latch]

a_a_a

that message won't show up in search. it's a problem with discord, not with your bot

[dull aurora]

e.g. if you want to search for abc_def_gih, just search for abc

[nimble latch]

it did but this message did not.

search indexing may be slow.

nah some messages are just being dropped for no reason

got the same inconsistent behavior

[gleaming trellis]

so, i have to quit codeblocks and use regular chatting

[nimble latch]

probably not

discord might just be having issues right now particularly

oh wait wait

[gleaming trellis]

This problem has like 10 months, when I started using webhooks

but now the problem it's for codeblocks, as i told you i had problem with all the webhook

[gleaming trellis]

messages like this did not showed up

now yes

[dull aurora]

it depends on the message

[nimble latch]

ok so discord search breaks with specifically:
messages in text channels
have formatting characters, where they aren't transformed into formatting

not reliant on the codeblock apparently

[dull aurora]

but you could store all in a DB and add a command for the search

[nimble latch]

the symptoms are inconsistent/slow indexing and extremely inconsistent content indexing

that's what ive found

maybe a combination of circumstances is making it even slower or consistently non-functional in your case, but it's nothing about your code. discord just being broken

i agree with dan, storing your own data would probably be better here

[gleaming trellis]

I'm struggling with this because the discord server is our database. I have staff that execute commands and the webhook sends the dats of the command to a specfic channel, so when a staff requires information he/she just searches in the search option

and like you saw, we have a lot of data, so seaching manually scrolling thru the text channel it's not efficent

😭

[dull aurora]

you cannot rely on Discord's search

[gleaming trellis]

I know, it is just the minecraft server owner does not provide us a way to see this

so we have to

[dull aurora]

then that needs to be changed

[gleaming trellis]

I'm gonna try to convince him. For the moment, I'm gonna quit codeblocks and just stay with regular chatting, thanks for the help!

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