This is really cool! I'm worried about the change of search behavior though. We need to teach users to prepend the @ and that they now must use the full keywords.

Ideally, the syntax highlighting would be supplanted by suggestions akin to commands. The library button could also just add or remove @library from the search terms.

I think this change actually improves discovery overall. Previously, adding a filter was easy to do accidentally and could even hide mods that would otherwise match the search terms. Now, a correct search term is prefixed by the @ symbol and is highlighted to indicate to the user that it does something.

In the end, search terms are a power user tool and I think that after the proposed changes, their discoverability will be suitable.

This is a really cool feature!

I have one question though: Is the usage of @ neccessary, or could that be changed to something more familiar like #?

This is a really cool feature!

I have one question though: Is the usage of @ neccessary, or could that be changed to something more familiar like #?

It's like @s in commands

This is a really cool feature!
I have one question though: Is the usage of @ neccessary, or could that be changed to something more familiar like #?

It's like @s in commands

Selectors in a command aren't really the same as tags in a search though. I'm looking at this from the perspective of someone who's used to search engines like twitter or mastodon where terms/categories/concepts use #tags and individuals use @Handles .

Using command syntax for something that's not a command, to filter for things that are not selectors, is just going to confuse matters.

If you really want to lean into the command-like syntax, then you shouldn't have searches like @library @author:Prospector. It should instead be @library[author="Prospector"].

any update on this?