I find that switching conversations is difficult when trying to select private conversations by the user’s name. The difficulty is in the channel search which limits search to the text of the user’s username. EX:
I want to look up “John Doe” (first, last names) whose username is “jdoe”
Cmd+K to open switch channel search
Enter “John”, “Doe” or even “doe” produces no results
What I would like to see is
all name fields/columns should be included in the search (“John”)
mid-string matching should also be allowed (“doe”)
A looser matching paradigm would be more viable in channel searching b/c the search pool tends to be far smaller than that of the convo history.
Thanks @gklandes. Totally agree, we are working on a complete re-design of the channel switcher including the ability to search on more fields and partial text. Please feel free to browse through the spec and add any comments.