# How are people feeling about Discourse? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 25, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428 "2020-11-25T16:40:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 178
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428/178 "2020-12-31T15:44:42Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > I’m hoping to find a way to easily find if a person has posted in a thread. Let’s say that I want to know if you’ve posted in a particular thread. I know that I could go to the OP and look at the list of icons and scroll over each one to see if I found your name or if I could identify your avatar. Is there any other way to do that? Click on the search icon at the top, and check ‘Search this topic’. Enter @Username and after a pause of a second or two it will provide a dropdown list of their posts in the thread. You can click on one to jump there, and then go back to the search box and click on another. Also, if you see someone’s avatar anywhere in the thread, you can click on it, then on the filter button (‘x posts in topic’). It will then show only that person’s posts in the thread, which can be very useful. But it won’t work if the user’s profile is hidden. Yes, I’m looking at you, Heffalump! > [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > I’m looking for a way to find the threads a poster started between, say 2004-2007 without having to scroll through the whole list of threads they’ve started from their profile. You can do this with the operator ‘in:first’ which shows the topics they’ve started.: ``` @Username in:first after:2003 before:2008 ``` More generally: ``` @Username in:first after:yyyy-mm-dd before:yyyy-mm-dd ``` If you want both before and after dates, you have to type the dates in manually, because the boxes in the advanced search only allow you to do one or the other. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428)._