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Great idea, but probably is best covered by insaves:mine and "specific text string"; there's no way they can add support for infinitely customizable list names chosen by users.
– TylerH
Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 15:30
@TylerH How about adding a search field on the "Saves" page that searches in whatever list is currently open (or all saves if no list is selected)? And then in:saves would just work as a shortcut.
– 41686d6564
Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 15:33
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@TylerH "there's no way they can add support for infinitely customizable list names chosen by users" pretty sure it's possible. YouTube doesn't stop me from making as many lists of videos as I want. On the technical side, I'm sure it's essentially a list you can give a name to. Custom filters kind of do that already - it's a collection of tags to search and you can name it. You can make many of them, too.
– VLAZ
Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 15:34
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I also would like to see inlist:listname or inlist:all and just dump "saves" entirely.
– ColleenV
Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 15:50
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Thanks for the feedback. Once we are able to understand the usage of this new feature post-launch we will revisit the requests from Meta for future iterations.
– tanj92 Staff
Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 22:01
@VLAZ It's not about how many lists you make, it's about the system creating keywords to use for searching them. If I make a list called "purpleSucks" should I be able to search in:saves list:purpleSucks? Not likely.
– TylerH
Commented Sep 14, 2022 at 4:06
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@TylerH It should be something like in:saves.purpleSucks. It should select saves and then subselect purpleSucks and start the search. Why do you say not likely?
– TheMaster
Commented Oct 8, 2022 at 16:58
@TheMaster I am aware of several sensible ways it work from a front-end perspective. That's not my concern. My concern is with storing a potentially infinite number of custom searches in their database. Based on how they store the custom filters it could be not a scalable thing. If they have the table architected such that they only need one new column and can save each custom filter as a row, then sure that might work fine. But if they store filter options as columns... yeah no.
– TylerH
Commented Oct 10, 2022 at 13:28

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