Currently when searching in a discussion, the search is against both usernames and discussion entry text. This can be problematic for situatrions where a admin, faculty, or student just want to search for posts by a name, like "matt". The results currently include Matt's posts, but also every other post that mentioned Matt as part of their text.
There could be a couple possible improvements to address this issue: 1 - Have a dropdown to choose whether to search just user names, discussion entries, or both. 2 - allow some kind of preface for search terms to identify what to search. For example something like 'name:Matt' could search for all posts by a person named Matt. 'name:Matt entry:history' could search for all posts by users names matt for posts that contain the word history.
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