Allow searching for accounts in search bar

[test2a]

Describe the problem to be solved

search allows channels address like music@tube.ouahpiti.info which is a channel and pasting that in search bar in local instance atleast pulls up the channel. its creator is piti@tube.ouahpiti.info which if i put in search, shows no results
Describe the solution you would like:
allow pasting userid of "user profile" in search, just like channel id

Describe alternatives you have considered

[Chocobozzz]

We don't want to mix channels and accounts in search results. So what we could do is to display all channels of the accounts you searched for instead?

[Booteille]

I think too it would be nice to be able to search for the user. I faced the same situation a couple of time, always surprised by not being able to find the user.

Maybe we could use visual indicators (icons, or just a text indicating that an element is a channel) to differentiate users and channels easily.

[Bugsbane]

what we could do is to display all channels of the accounts you searched for

I'd suggest a hybrid of this that shows the channels, but makes the relationship between them and what the user searched for clear. For example, something like:

Person searches for the user "Pinky" by searching for pinky@instance.net, they see:

Pinky's channels:
{Channel 1 name} [subscribe button]
{Channel 2 name} [subscribe button]
etc.

This way, if Pinky's channel(s) are called something generic that doesn't make it clear who they belong to (eg "My awesum vids!"), it's still clear that the channels shown are relevant results.

Either way though is better than the current results showing nothing. For the longest time, I thought that my instance couldn't subscribe to channels from other instances as I was always searching for user names.