Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

Why is it that I am **constantly** searching “addrh2ksi61…” and “event1slapem8ai205…” and “npub1ka3008jdos…” in the search bar of basically any client and literally never get any results? 🤔

When something doesn’t “@“ properly or embed the way it should, all I see is the address/hash/pubkey/etc, but it seems like the basic search function on all the clients has no idea what to do with them, which seems really silly… is this just a coincidence that it’s not finding it for the same reason it’s not displaying it in the notes? Or does the search really not built to find identifiers for notes and users, just the names and text itself?

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Brisket 2y ago

I think it's the way the protocol is designed.

I think most clients will eventually need to build & maintain a local database of users to overcome the issue. A table of npubs & meta data that have become significant to me is very useful.

Amethyst feels like it is starting to get better Inn this regard.

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