Room directory does not match on fuzzy strings

[kittykat]

Steps to reproduce

1. Join room dialog
2. Search for "Element testing"
3. See only one result, which is not "Element community testing"

Intended result and actual result

What did you expect?

Seeing results for close matches (ranked below exact matches)

What happened instead?

Only exact matches are shown

See also #3968

Application version and app store

Element 1.3.4 (RC)

Will you send logs?

No

[ganfra]

Is this filtering on RoomList or filtering on the RoomDirectory (when wanting to join a room)?
Filtering on RoomDirectory is made server side.

[kittykat]

@ganfra room directory

[ouchadam]

just seen

@ganfra room directory

which would mean we can't do this client side

[ouchadam]

As this requires changes to multiple platforms I'm going to convert from defect to enhancement but upgrade from papercut to a wtf

*searching the element corp space on the web client

[daniellekirkwood]

@ouchadam have we concluded that this is server-side? Is there anything we can do on the client side or should we move this to the BE team's repo?

[ouchadam]

@daniellekirkwood for the room directory search. yep it's server side but for the conversation filtering it's client side.

Room directory search (server)

Conversation filtering (local)