@Piejacker875 haha im glad

@garbados note*

@Vann you’re right. damnit regex

@garbados @Vann you can use \bpol\b to ensure that a word boundary is on both sides i think? for clarity masto uses the javascript regexp engine with the case-insensitive flag set

@garbados as a bonus I dunno if masto accepts regex flags in any way so you can't do fancier stuff like make it case sensitive

so better regex would be

\b(discourse|pol)\b

to require matching word boundaries

@Vann gosh heck, thanks for this clarification. i tend to figure out regex by trial and error.

just makes me wish for more comprehensive filtering 😓

@garbados yeah it's not very good as is

also wrapping the terms with spaces isn't a good way to enforce matching whole words either, I just realized

that wouldn't match cases without the spaces then

@Vann *shakes fist at regex*

@garbados it's great!

just that defining a regular language is a junior/senior undergrad thing and not really a good UX thing