@feditips @jentaub [nods] The search bar says hashtags *and users.*

I’m looking specifically for people who I *know* are on Mastodon, where I know their handles and even often the full handles including the servers they are on, and ‘search’ cannot find them (or finds some, but not others - which is weirder).

tl;dr - It’s not a fucntional search right now.

@feditips @jentaub [nods] Yes, I agree it should work, but it doesn’t.

Again, we live in a world *after* Twitter. If Mastodon wants to be a viable Twitter alternative, saying again and again “hey, it’s just quirky! read the manual!” is not a selling point.

I’m not mad or anything, but it is *very* important that Mastodon not act like #AntiSocialMedia for new users migrating from a much more UX friendly Twitter

@feditips @jentaub [nods] Again, we live *after* Twitter, where the search bar works just fine.

I hate to keep saying it, but in 2022 RTFM is just a bug, not a feature.

If the ‘surest way to find somebody’ on Mastodon is a whole separate link, then - I dunno - just get the search bar to *link there,* I guess?

@Gargron Agreed - but it has to work, and Mastodon UX just feels buggy AF right now for folks migrating over from Twitter.