PEBKAC, you can scroll and search chats in teams.
outrageously slowly, and i'm not talking about a couple HTTP requests and a database query slow
> and search
search is not practical in my opinion. i'd go as far as saying it's unusable. i can _find individual messages_, but there are times (often, i might add!) where context or jumping to that message aren't even options. context is often the reason you search for messages in the first place. if i'm alone here, sure, PEBKAC
I think I understand why it works this way too. If you search _channels_, then the search will show the messages with that word but link you to the entire conversation that message appears in. But for chats, each individual message is basically treated like it's own conversation and thus search only displays the single message with no context.
A quick Google suggests I'm not alone in this criticism, and it's been a problem for even longer than I've been using Teams (a year or two): https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/teams...
So I donno, perhaps it's something funky with our Teams deployment, but this is such a basic feature that I have a hard time understanding how it could ever be implemented this way. Certainly no other chat service I've used has had this kind of problem.