@ivory this looks great, although couldn’t a shortcut option be made available for people who don’t know what regex is? (E.g. match whole word only option?)

@ivory What an strangely specific example. 🤣 Keep up the great work, guys. Love what you do.

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@ivory OK please tell me you're going to support full PCRE so I can get disproportionately excited by a mobile app

@ivory I'm not so certain that including "felony" when searching for "Elon" is an error. :)

@ivory I love Ivory, but requiring regex knowledge to force matching the exact thing I enter for search is TERRIBLE for new users. You can give users the *option* to use regex, but the *default* should only match exactly what is requested. The “solution” offered is making users fix unexpected geeky behaviour by the app back-end. This is NOT newbie-friendly.

@ivory If the regex should also match when there is no Space before the searchstring (i.e. it is at the beginning of the test), use a regex like this (not tested in ivory):\belon\b
\b denotes a word boundary

@ivory The trouble you get in with a regex like that, though, is that it doesn't block out "Elon." or "#IdiotElon" constructs.

Would something like

\b(elon)\b

Also work to match word boundaries?

@ivory It’s not matching his full name Elongated Muskrat.

@ivory I guess they are always case insensitive. What regular expressions are supported?
Wouldn't it make the feature more discoverable if the toggle was visible before entering a punctuation character?

@ivory oh my, this is exactly what I needed. (With this exact example) 😅
Thank you so much!

@ivory I love your choice of matching words... Elon, belong, felony

@ivory feature request: Shared Filters/Filter Lists, akin to the Drafts ecosystem. I’m sure the Space Enron filter set would be very popular.

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A solution only an opensource hacker could love and only a 13 yr old computer hack would stumble across.

"Oh look! If you put a slash and a space in there this other thing shows up and if I do this to the other thing then it does what I wanted in the first place.... VOILAH!!!" Now I'm a power user!

Its like intuitively knowing that if you make Mario jump and punch the mushroom, coins will fly out.🤣

@ivory I love the little bit of shade.

But in seriousness, thank you for making an awesome app that makes this new place feel more comfortable.

@ivory I was today years old when I discovered Ivory's filter interface.

I kept looking for it in the top-left menu, didn't find it, and thought it was absent because Ivory is still in development. 😭

@ivory I know masto leans super tech-literate, but maybe this justifies a “match whole word only” toggle for the masses that constructs the appropriate regex in the background?

@ivory Thank you, that’s very useful.

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@ivory are flags supported as well? I.e. "\ elon/i"

@ivory If you add a keyword filter for “Elon”, it will also filter posts with the word "felony," which is entirely correct. 🤭

@ivory have you considered importing the filters from Tweetbot? Right now it's... somewhat difficult to copy them over.

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I both adore and despise Regex. 😩 😂

@ivory I think by default a normal (not regex) keyword filter should only match on whole words or hashtags. Moreover, while I love regex, I don't think many people know or care about them. So perhaps a more useful switch for most would be: "whole word / contains".

@ivory but can I apply a keyword filter to only one user?

@ivory How to use regex to filter someone mentioning some keywords?

@ivory @egghat a classic 😄 most users wouldn’t expect that to happen (filtering words by parts of it).

Advanced users would expect they could do it with a wildcard like „Elon*“, „*elon*“ and so on

RegEx always looks like an over engineered thing … and as always: one gives a simple example/solution with three extra chars - it didn’t take long to see a fullblown, respect all edge cases, two side long expression 🤣 (I’m exaggerating a bit, but you may get the point)

@ivory is it possible to update server-defined filters in the app?

@ivory @charles_ex @aloa5 @Ginger149 @stefanieschulte

@ivory I love the example you’ve given. 👌🏻

@ivory bug, Tap the tabs below in succession, and this appears

@ivory Good real life example, thanks!

@ivory AKA the Scunthorpe problem

@ivory I love this, but maybe something for the non-regex-fluent among us? like a “word" checkbox that adds word boundary stuff to the original version?