[www] better room/player search

apps/accounts/src/accounts.app.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
 	getAccount,
 	getAccountByUsername,
 	getAccountsByIds,
+	SEARCH_LIMIT,
 	searchAccounts,
 	updateAccount,
 } from '@repo/domain'
@@ -337,17 +338,28 @@ const app = new Hono<App>()
 					description: 'Username prefix; empty matches nothing meaningful',
 					schema: { type: 'string' },
 				},
+				{
+					name: 'take',
+					in: 'query',
+					required: false,
+					description: `How many to return (default and max ${SEARCH_LIMIT}); fewer reads fewer rows`,
+					schema: { type: 'integer' },
+				},
 			],
 			responses: { 200: json(AccountDto.array(), 'Matching public accounts') },
 		}),
 		async (c) => {
 			const name = c.req.query('name') ?? ''
-			const accounts = await searchAccounts(c.env.DB, name)
+			// The seek stops at the LIMIT, so a caller that draws five (the site's header
+			// search) is billed five rows rather than the default twenty.
+			const take = Number.parseInt(c.req.query('take') ?? '', 10)
+			const limit = Number.isNaN(take) ? SEARCH_LIMIT : Math.max(1, Math.min(take, SEARCH_LIMIT))
+			const accounts = await searchAccounts(c.env.DB, name, limit)
 			return c.json(accounts.map(toAccountDto))
 		}
 	)
 
-	// Exact lookup by username — what the site's `/u/<name>` profile pages and the staff
+	// Exact lookup by username — what the site's `/user/<name>` profile pages and the staff
 	// `@username` fields resolve a player through. An indexed equality on `username_lower`;
 	// before this existed they went through the prefix search above and filtered the
 	// exact hit client-side, which cost a 20-row index walk per profile view. Same path

apps/rooms/migrations/0032_room_search_name.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+-- The searchable rooms by lowercased name, for the website's header search
+-- (`GET /rooms/search/name`, searchRoomsByName).
+--
+-- Generated from packages/domain/src/rooms-db.ts (ROOM_SCHEMA_DDL) — keep in sync.
+--
+-- PARTIAL over exactly SEARCHABLE_WHERE, so a prefix seek visits only rooms it can serve
+-- and the LIMIT stops it: D1 bills the rows returned, not the room count. The existing
+-- `idx_rooms_name_lower` holds every dorm and private room, and each one the seek passed
+-- would be read to test the filters. Built from the VIRTUAL columns, so no backfill.
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_room_search_name ON room (name_lower)
+ WHERE is_dorm IS NOT 1 AND accessibility = 1 AND exclude_from_search IS NOT 1;

apps/rooms/src/rooms.app.ts

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ import {
 	roomRoles,
 	saveSubRoomData,
 	searchRooms,
+	searchRoomsByName,
 	setPlayerData,
 	setRoomDescription,
 	setRoomImage,
@@ -1208,6 +1209,9 @@ async function ownedRoomsExcludingDorm(c: Context<App>) {
 /** Suggestions `/rooms/autocomplete_search` returns when the client names no `take`. */
 const DEFAULT_SUGGESTION_COUNT = 10
 
+/** Cap on `/rooms/search/name`'s `take`: a type-ahead list, so the seek stays a few rows. */
+const NAME_SEARCH_MAX = 10
+
 const app = new Hono<App>()
 	.use(
 		'*',
@@ -1435,6 +1439,38 @@ const app = new Hono<App>()
 		}
 	)
 
+	// The website's header search: searchable rooms whose name STARTS with `query`, A–Z,
+	// as a bare array. Not the game's search (`/rooms/search` is a substring match that
+	// reads every searchable room); this is an index seek that reads only the rows it
+	// returns, which is what lets the site ask on every pause in typing. Un-hydrated rooms.
+	.get(
+		'/rooms/search/name',
+		describeRoute({
+			tags: ['Discovery'],
+			summary: 'Prefix-search rooms by name',
+			description: [
+				'Searchable rooms (public, non-dorm, not `ExcludeFromSearch`) whose name begins',
+				'with `query`, case-insensitive, alphabetically — a bare array. An index seek, so',
+				'it reads only the rooms it returns. Rooms are served without subrooms, tags or',
+				'badges. The game’s substring search is `/rooms/search`.',
+			].join(' '),
+			parameters: [
+				stringQuery('query', 'Name prefix'),
+				intQuery('take', `How many rooms to return (default and max ${NAME_SEARCH_MAX})`),
+			],
+			responses: { 200: json(RoomDto.array(), 'The matching rooms, A–Z') },
+		}),
+		async (c) => {
+			const take = Number.parseInt(c.req.query('take') ?? '', 10)
+			const rooms = await searchRoomsByName(
+				c.env.DB,
+				c.req.query('query') ?? '',
+				Number.isNaN(take) ? NAME_SEARCH_MAX : Math.min(take, NAME_SEARCH_MAX)
+			)
+			return c.json(serveRooms(rooms))
+		}
+	)
+
 	// Type-ahead for the search box (`?query=r&take=4&searchSessionId=…`). A bare array of
 	// plain STRINGS — suggestions, not rooms and not an envelope.
 	//

apps/rooms/src/test/integration/api.test.ts

@@ -681,6 +681,46 @@ describe('rooms endpoints', () => {
 		expect(body.Results.some((r) => r.Name === 'RecCenter')).toBe(true)
 	})
 
+	it('GET /rooms/search/name prefix-matches searchable rooms A–Z through the partial index', async () => {
+		const search = async (query: string, extra = '') =>
+			(await (
+				await SELF.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/rooms/search/name?query=${encodeURIComponent(query)}${extra}`)
+			).json()) as Array<{ Name: string; IsDorm?: boolean; Stats: { VisitCount: number } }>
+
+		// A bare array of whole rooms, case-insensitive, every name starting with the query, A–Z.
+		const rec = await search('REC', '&take=10')
+		expect(rec.some((r) => r.Name === 'RecCenter')).toBe(true)
+		for (const r of rec) expect(r.Name.toLowerCase().startsWith('rec')).toBe(true)
+		const names = rec.map((r) => r.Name.toLowerCase())
+		expect(names).toEqual([...names].sort())
+		expect(typeof rec[0]?.Stats.VisitCount).toBe('number')
+
+		// A prefix, not a substring: "center" is inside RecCenter but doesn't start it.
+		expect((await search('center')).some((r) => r.Name === 'RecCenter')).toBe(false)
+		// `take` caps it, and is itself capped at 10; empty and wildcard queries find nothing.
+		expect((await search('r', '&take=2')).length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(2)
+		expect(await search('', '&take=500')).toEqual([])
+		expect(await search('%')).toEqual([])
+		expect((await search('r', '&take=500')).length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(10)
+		// Dorms (named `@user's Dorm`) are never served.
+		expect((await search('@')).every((r) => r.IsDorm !== true)).toBe(true)
+
+		// The point of the endpoint: a SEEK on the partial index, so D1 reads only the rows it
+		// returns. Fall back to a scan (or the unfiltered name index) and every call is billed
+		// for every room again.
+		const plan = await env.DB.prepare(
+			`EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN SELECT data FROM room
+			 WHERE is_dorm IS NOT 1 AND accessibility = 1 AND exclude_from_search IS NOT 1
+			   AND name_lower >= ?1 AND name_lower < ?2 AND name_lower LIKE ?3 ESCAPE '\\'
+			 ORDER BY name_lower LIMIT 5`
+		)
+			.bind('r', 'r\u{10FFFF}', 'r%')
+			.all<{ detail: string }>()
+		const detail = plan.results.map((r) => r.detail).join('\n')
+		expect(detail).toContain('SEARCH room USING INDEX idx_room_search_name')
+		expect(detail).not.toContain('TEMP B-TREE')
+	})
+
 	it('GET /rooms/autocomplete_search suggests names and tags as plain strings', async () => {
 		const suggest = async (query: string, extra = '') =>
 			(await (
@@ -6251,6 +6291,7 @@ describe('rooms endpoints', () => {
 			'GET /rooms/ownedby/{accountId}',
 			'GET /rooms/recommendations',
 			'GET /rooms/search',
+			'GET /rooms/search/name',
 			'GET /rooms/visitedby/me',
 			'GET /rooms/visitedby/{playerId}',
 			'GET /rooms/{roomId}',

apps/www/src/client/App.tsx

@@ -1129,11 +1129,11 @@ interface PublicRoom {
 	Stats: { VisitCount: number; CheerCount: number; FavoriteCount: number }
 }
 
-/** Prefix-search accounts by username — backs the header search bar. */
-async function searchPlayers(query: string): Promise<PublicAccount[]> {
+/** Prefix-search accounts by username — backs the header search. */
+async function searchPlayers(query: string, take: number): Promise<PublicAccount[]> {
 	if (query.trim() === '') return []
 	return call<PublicAccount[]>(
-		`${where().accounts}/account/search?name=${encodeURIComponent(query.trim())}`
+		`${where().accounts}/account/search?name=${encodeURIComponent(query.trim())}&take=${take}`
 	)
 }
 
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ const fetchPublicAccount = (username: string): Promise<PublicAccount | null> =>
  * The photos a player has taken. Sent WITH the session token when there is one: `api`
  * reads it and, only when the list is the caller's own, includes the photos they keep
  * private — so a signed-in player sees all of theirs, on `/account` and on their own
- * `/u/<name>`, while everyone else's profile is the public list either way. Nothing
+ * `/user/<name>`, while everyone else's profile is the public list either way. Nothing
  * here decides who the viewer is; the worker does, from the token.
  */
 const fetchPlayerPhotos = (accountId: number): Promise<PublicPhoto[]> =>
@@ -1218,91 +1218,199 @@ async function setRoomExcluded(roomId: number, excluded: boolean): Promise<Owned
 	return result.value
 }
 
-/** The `/u/<username>` path, or null for any other path. */
+/** The `/user/<username>` path (or the old `/u/<username>`), or null for any other path. */
 function usernameFromPath(path: string): string | null {
-	const match = /^\/u\/([^/]+)$/.exec(path)
+	const match = /^\/(?:user|u)\/([^/]+)$/.exec(path)
 	return match ? decodeURIComponent(match[1]) : null
 }
 
-// The nav's player search. `/u/:name` profiles stay reachable by URL either way; this only
-// decides whether the search bar that leads to them is shown.
-const SHOW_PLAYER_SEARCH: boolean = true
+// The nav's search. `/user/:name` and `/rooms/:id` stay reachable by URL either way; this
+// only decides whether the search button that leads to them is shown.
+const SHOW_SEARCH: boolean = true
+
+/** How many of each kind the search panel lists. */
+const SEARCH_TAKE = 5
 
 /**
- * The header search bar — a rec.net-style bubble dropdown of matching players as you
- * type. Debounced so it doesn't fire a search per keystroke; closes on selecting a
- * result, on Escape, or on clicking outside it.
+ * Rooms whose name starts with `query`. The prefix endpoint, not the game's `/rooms/search`:
+ * that one's substring match reads every public room per call, which a search fired on
+ * every pause in typing can't afford; this one is an index seek billed per row returned.
  */
-function PlayerSearch({ navigate }: { navigate: Navigate }) {
-	const [query, setQuery] = useState('')
-	const [results, setResults] = useState<PublicAccount[]>([])
+const searchRooms = (query: string, take: number): Promise<PublicRoom[]> =>
+	query.trim() === ''
+		? Promise.resolve([])
+		: call<PublicRoom[]>(
+				`${where().rooms}/rooms/search/name?query=${encodeURIComponent(query.trim())}&take=${take}`
+			)
+
+function SearchIcon() {
+	return (
+		<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="20" height="20" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
+			<circle cx="11" cy="11" r="6.5" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2.2" />
+			<path
+				d="M16 16l4.5 4.5"
+				fill="none"
+				stroke="currentColor"
+				strokeWidth="2.2"
+				strokeLinecap="round"
+			/>
+		</svg>
+	)
+}
+
+/**
+ * The header search: a magnifier button that opens a panel searching players and rooms
+ * together as you type. A button rather than an always-on bar so it fits a phone's nav.
+ * Debounced so it doesn't fire per keystroke; closes on picking a result, on Escape, or
+ * on a tap outside it. Enter takes the first player, else the first room.
+ */
+function SiteSearch({ navigate }: { navigate: Navigate }) {
 	const [open, setOpen] = useState(false)
+	const [query, setQuery] = useState('')
+	const [players, setPlayers] = useState<PublicAccount[]>([])
+	const [rooms, setRooms] = useState<PublicRoom[]>([])
+	// The query the results on screen answer, so "nothing found" waits for the answer.
+	const [answered, setAnswered] = useState('')
 	const containerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
+	const inputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null)
+	// Answers by normalized query, for the panel's lifetime on the page: backspacing to a
+	// query already asked redraws it without another request (and another D1 read).
+	const cache = useRef(new Map<string, [PublicAccount[], PublicRoom[]]>())
 
 	useEffect(() => {
-		if (query.trim() === '') {
-			setResults([])
+		const key = query.trim().toLowerCase()
+		const show = ([p, r]: [PublicAccount[], PublicRoom[]]) => {
+			setPlayers(p.slice(0, SEARCH_TAKE))
+			setRooms(r.slice(0, SEARCH_TAKE))
+			setAnswered(query)
+		}
+		if (key === '') {
+			setPlayers([])
+			setRooms([])
+			setAnswered('')
 			return
 		}
+		const known = cache.current.get(key)
+		if (known) {
+			show(known)
+			return
+		}
+		let stale = false
 		const timeout = setTimeout(() => {
-			void searchPlayers(query)
-				.then((r) => setResults(r.slice(0, 6)))
-				.catch(() => setResults([]))
+			void Promise.all([
+				searchPlayers(key, SEARCH_TAKE).catch(() => null),
+				searchRooms(key, SEARCH_TAKE).catch(() => null),
+			]).then(([p, r]) => {
+				const found: [PublicAccount[], PublicRoom[]] = [p ?? [], r ?? []]
+				// A failed half isn't cached, so the next time this is typed it asks again.
+				if (p !== null && r !== null) cache.current.set(key, found)
+				if (!stale) show(found)
+			})
 		}, 250)
-		return () => clearTimeout(timeout)
+		return () => {
+			stale = true
+			clearTimeout(timeout)
+		}
 	}, [query])
 
 	useEffect(() => {
-		const onClickOutside = (e: MouseEvent) => {
+		if (!open) return
+		inputRef.current?.focus()
+		const onPointerDown = (e: PointerEvent) => {
 			if (containerRef.current && !containerRef.current.contains(e.target as Node)) {
 				setOpen(false)
 			}
 		}
-		document.addEventListener('mousedown', onClickOutside)
-		return () => document.removeEventListener('mousedown', onClickOutside)
-	}, [])
+		document.addEventListener('pointerdown', onPointerDown)
+		return () => document.removeEventListener('pointerdown', onPointerDown)
+	}, [open])
 
-	const go = (username: string) => {
+	const go = (to: string) => {
 		setOpen(false)
 		setQuery('')
-		navigate(`/u/${encodeURIComponent(username)}`)
+		navigate(to)
 	}
+	const playerPath = (r: PublicAccount) => `/user/${encodeURIComponent(r.username)}`
+	const roomPath = (r: PublicRoom) => `/rooms/${r.RoomId}`
+	const nothing = query.trim() !== '' && answered === query && players.length + rooms.length === 0
 
 	return (
-		<div className="player-search" ref={containerRef}>
-			<input
-				type="text"
-				placeholder="Search players…"
-				value={query}
-				onChange={(e) => {
-					setQuery(e.target.value)
-					setOpen(true)
-				}}
-				onFocus={() => setOpen(true)}
-				onKeyDown={(e) => {
-					if (e.key === 'Escape') setOpen(false)
-					if (e.key === 'Enter' && results[0]) go(results[0].username)
-				}}
-			/>
-			{open && results.length > 0 && (
-				<div className="player-search-bubble">
-					{results.map((r) => (
-						<button
-							key={r.accountId}
-							className="player-search-result"
-							onClick={() => go(r.username)}
-						>
-							<img
-								className="player-search-avatar"
-								src={`${where().img}/${r.profileImage}?width=64`}
-								alt=""
-							/>
-							<span>
-								<span className="player-search-name">{r.displayName || r.username}</span>
-								<span className="player-search-handle">@{r.username}</span>
-							</span>
-						</button>
-					))}
+		<div className="site-search" ref={containerRef}>
+			<button
+				type="button"
+				className={`site-search-toggle${open ? ' active' : ''}`}
+				aria-label="Search players and rooms"
+				aria-expanded={open}
+				onClick={() => setOpen((o) => !o)}
+			>
+				<SearchIcon />
+			</button>
+			{open && (
+				<div className="site-search-panel">
+					<input
+						ref={inputRef}
+						type="search"
+						placeholder="Search players and rooms…"
+						aria-label="Search players and rooms"
+						value={query}
+						onChange={(e) => setQuery(e.target.value)}
+						onKeyDown={(e) => {
+							if (e.key === 'Escape') setOpen(false)
+							if (e.key === 'Enter') {
+								if (players[0]) go(playerPath(players[0]))
+								else if (rooms[0]) go(roomPath(rooms[0]))
+							}
+						}}
+					/>
+					{players.length > 0 && (
+						<div className="site-search-group">
+							<p className="site-search-heading">Players</p>
+							{players.map((r) => (
+								<button
+									key={r.accountId}
+									type="button"
+									className="site-search-result"
+									onClick={() => go(playerPath(r))}
+								>
+									<img
+										className="site-search-avatar"
+										src={`${where().img}/${r.profileImage}?width=64`}
+										alt=""
+									/>
+									<span>
+										<span className="site-search-name">{r.displayName || r.username}</span>
+										<span className="site-search-sub">@{r.username}</span>
+									</span>
+								</button>
+							))}
+						</div>
+					)}
+					{rooms.length > 0 && (
+						<div className="site-search-group">
+							<p className="site-search-heading">Rooms</p>
+							{rooms.map((r) => (
+								<button
+									key={r.RoomId}
+									type="button"
+									className="site-search-result"
+									onClick={() => go(roomPath(r))}
+								>
+									<img
+										className="site-search-thumb"
+										src={`${where().img}/${r.ImageName}?width=128`}
+										alt=""
+									/>
+									<span>
+										<span className="site-search-name">^{r.Name}</span>
+										<span className="site-search-sub">
+											{r.Stats.VisitCount.toLocaleString()} visits
+										</span>
+									</span>
+								</button>
+							))}
+						</div>
+					)}
+					{nothing && <p className="site-search-empty">No players or rooms match.</p>}
 				</div>
 			)}
 		</div>
@@ -1429,7 +1537,7 @@ function ImagePage({ imageId, config }: { imageId: number; config: SiteConfig |
 }
 
 /**
- * A player's public profile page (`/u/<username>`) — banner, avatar, bio-adjacent
+ * A player's public profile page (`/user/<username>`) — banner, avatar, bio-adjacent
  * info, their public rooms, and their public photos. Read-only: this is the
  * "rec.net-style profile" other players browse to, not the owner's own dashboard
  * (that stays on `/account`).
@@ -1451,7 +1559,7 @@ function PlayerPage({
 	useEffect(() => {
 		// Waits for the config, not the session: this page is public, but every fetch on it
 		// goes through `where()`, which has no hostnames until `/api/config` lands. On a cold
-		// load of `/u/<name>` the effect would otherwise fire first and the page would be
+		// load of `/user/<name>` the effect would otherwise fire first and the page would be
 		// stuck on "Still starting up".
 		if (config === undefined) return
 		setAccount(undefined)
@@ -2460,7 +2568,6 @@ function NavBar({
 				RecFlare
 			</Link>
 			<nav className="nav-links">
-				{SHOW_PLAYER_SEARCH && <PlayerSearch navigate={navigate} />}
 				<a href={DISCORD_INVITE} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
 					Discord
 				</a>
@@ -2505,6 +2612,7 @@ function NavBar({
 						Sign in
 					</Link>
 				)}
+				{SHOW_SEARCH && <SiteSearch navigate={navigate} />}
 			</nav>
 		</header>
 	)
@@ -3199,7 +3307,7 @@ function PublicRoomView({
 					{creator && (
 						<p className="room-hero-by">
 							by{' '}
-							<Link to={`/u/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`} navigate={navigate}>
+							<Link to={`/user/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`} navigate={navigate}>
 								{creator.displayName || creator.username}
 							</Link>
 						</p>

apps/www/src/client/Item.tsx

@@ -216,10 +216,10 @@ export function ItemPage({
 						<p className="room-hero-by">
 							by{' '}
 							<a
-								href={`/u/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`}
+								href={`/user/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`}
 								onClick={(e) => {
 									e.preventDefault()
-									navigate(`/u/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`)
+									navigate(`/user/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`)
 								}}
 							>
 								{creator.displayName || creator.username}
@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ export function InventionPage({
 						<p className="room-hero-by">
 							by{' '}
 							<a
-								href={`/u/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`}
+								href={`/user/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`}
 								onClick={(e) => {
 									e.preventDefault()
-									navigate(`/u/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`)
+									navigate(`/user/${encodeURIComponent(creator.username)}`)
 								}}
 							>
 								{creator.displayName || creator.username}

apps/www/src/client/Moderation.tsx

@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ function BanSummary({
 }
 
 /**
- * One line for a player's profile page (`/u/<username>`): whether a ban blocks them right
+ * One line for a player's profile page (`/user/<username>`): whether a ban blocks them right
  * now — their own or a linked account's — and a link to their full history here.
  */
 export function PlayerBanStatus({

apps/www/src/client/styles.css

@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ body {
 	font-size: 0.95rem;
 	color: var(--muted);
 	text-decoration: none;
-	/* A link is one or two words; with the search bar in the row it has to give up space
-	   by wrapping the ROW (see the nav rule under player search), not by breaking mid-link. */
+	/* A link is one or two words; short of room the ROW wraps (see the nav rule under
+	   site search), never a link mid-word. */
 	white-space: nowrap;
 }
 
@@ -1797,50 +1797,101 @@ button[type='submit']:disabled {
 	}
 }
 
-/* ---- Player search ------------------------------------------------------ */
+/* ---- Site search ------------------------------------------------------- */
 
-.player-search {
+/* The panel hangs off the NAV, not the button: the nav can wrap on a phone, which moves
+   the button, but the nav's right edge stays put — so the panel always opens flush right
+   and never runs off the screen. */
+.nav {
 	position: relative;
-	width: min(280px, 100%);
+	/* Wraps only when the row doesn't fit (a staff account's extra links on a phone). */
+	flex-wrap: wrap;
 }
 
-.player-search input {
-	margin: 0;
-	height: 40px;
-	padding: 8px 12px;
+.site-search-toggle {
+	display: inline-flex;
+	align-items: center;
+	justify-content: center;
+	width: 38px;
+	height: 38px;
+	padding: 0;
+	border: 1px solid var(--line);
 	border-radius: 999px;
 	background: var(--surface);
-	border-color: var(--line);
+	color: var(--muted);
+	cursor: pointer;
 	transition:
+		color 0.15s ease,
 		border-color 0.15s ease,
-		background 0.15s ease,
-		box-shadow 0.15s ease;
+		background 0.15s ease;
 }
 
-.player-search input:focus {
+.site-search-toggle:hover,
+.site-search-toggle.active {
+	color: var(--text);
 	border-color: var(--accent);
 	background: var(--surface-hi);
-	box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, transparent);
-	outline: none;
 }
 
-.player-search-bubble {
+.site-search-panel {
 	position: absolute;
 	z-index: 20;
-	top: calc(100% + 8px);
-	left: 0;
-	right: 0;
-	padding: 6px;
+	top: calc(100% - 8px);
+	right: 20px;
+	width: min(380px, calc(100% - 40px));
+	max-height: min(70vh, 560px);
+	overflow-y: auto;
+	padding: 8px;
 	background: var(--surface);
 	border: 1px solid var(--line);
 	border-radius: 12px;
 	box-shadow: 0 12px 30px rgb(0 0 0 / 28%);
 }
 
-.player-search-result {
+.site-search-panel input {
+	margin: 0;
+	height: 42px;
+	padding: 8px 14px;
+	border-radius: 999px;
+	background: var(--surface-hi);
+	border-color: var(--line);
+	/* 16px keeps iOS from zooming the page when the box takes focus. */
+	font-size: 16px;
+}
+
+.site-search-panel input:focus {
+	border-color: var(--accent);
+	box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, transparent);
+	outline: none;
+}
+
+.site-search-group {
+	margin-top: 8px;
+}
+
+.site-search-heading,
+.site-search-empty {
+	margin: 6px 8px 4px;
+	color: var(--muted);
+	font-size: 0.75rem;
+	font-weight: 600;
+	letter-spacing: 0.06em;
+	text-transform: uppercase;
+}
+
+.site-search-empty {
+	margin: 12px 8px 6px;
+	font-size: 0.9rem;
+	font-weight: 400;
+	letter-spacing: 0;
+	text-transform: none;
+}
+
+.site-search-result {
 	display: flex;
 	align-items: center;
 	width: 100%;
+	min-width: 0;
 	gap: 10px;
 	padding: 8px;
 	border: 0;
@@ -1852,22 +1903,35 @@ button[type='submit']:disabled {
 	font-family: var(--body);
 }
 
-.player-search-result:hover,
-.player-search-result:focus-visible {
+.site-search-result > span {
+	min-width: 0;
+}
+
+.site-search-result:hover,
+.site-search-result:focus-visible {
 	background: var(--surface-hi);
 }
 
-.player-search-avatar {
+.site-search-avatar,
+.site-search-thumb {
 	width: 36px;
 	height: 36px;
 	flex: none;
 	object-fit: cover;
-	border-radius: 50%;
 	border: 1px solid var(--line);
 	background: var(--surface-hi);
 }
 
-.player-search-name {
+.site-search-avatar {
+	border-radius: 50%;
+}
+
+.site-search-thumb {
+	width: 54px;
+	border-radius: 6px;
+}
+
+.site-search-name {
 	display: block;
 	overflow: hidden;
 	font-weight: 600;
@@ -1876,7 +1940,7 @@ button[type='submit']:disabled {
 	white-space: nowrap;
 }
 
-.player-search-handle {
+.site-search-sub {
 	display: block;
 	margin-top: 2px;
 	color: var(--muted);
@@ -1887,13 +1951,6 @@ button[type='submit']:disabled {
 	white-space: nowrap;
 }
 
-/* The search bar is a third thing in a row built for two, so the nav wraps when it runs
-   out of room rather than overflowing. No breakpoint: wrapping only happens when the row
-   doesn't fit, so wide screens are untouched. */
-.nav {
-	flex-wrap: wrap;
-}
-
 /* The account page's banner upload, in the profile banner's shape so what's uploaded
    looks as it will across the top of the profile. */
 .banner-upload {

packages/domain/src/accounts-db.ts

@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ export async function getAccountByUsername(
 export const SEARCH_LIMIT = 20
 
 /** Escape LIKE wildcards so user input is matched literally (using `\` as the escape char). */
-const escapeLike = (s: string): string => s.replace(/[\\%_]/g, '\\$&')
+export const escapeLike = (s: string): string => s.replace(/[\\%_]/g, '\\$&')
 
 /**
  * The smallest string that sorts after every string beginning with `prefix` under
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ const escapeLike = (s: string): string => s.replace(/[\\%_]/g, '\\$&')
  * UTF-8 encoding (F4 8F BF BF) is the highest valid sequence. The pair
  * `>= prefix AND < prefixUpperBound(prefix)` is the prefix match as a range.
  */
-const prefixUpperBound = (prefix: string): string => `${prefix}\u{10FFFF}`
+export const prefixUpperBound = (prefix: string): string => `${prefix}\u{10FFFF}`
 
 /**
  * Prefix-search accounts by username (case-insensitive, "begins with"), ordered

packages/domain/src/rooms-db.ts

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  * database read-only and uses `getRoomById`. Each imports the subset it needs.
  */
 
+import { escapeLike, prefixUpperBound } from './accounts-db'
 import { chunkForBinds, MAX_BOUND_PARAMS } from './d1-binds'
 import { Accessibility, Role } from './enums'
 import { countPlayersByRoom } from './presence-db'
@@ -72,6 +73,13 @@ export const ROOM_SCHEMA_DDL: string[] = [
 	// feeds all order by it eventually; the WHERE clause is the point, not the key.
 	`CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_room_public ON room (room_id)
 	 WHERE is_dorm IS NOT 1 AND accessibility = 1`,
+	// The searchable rooms by lowercased name (migrations/0032_room_search_name.sql) — what
+	// {@link searchRoomsByName} seeks. PARTIAL over exactly {@link SEARCHABLE_WHERE}, so the
+	// walk never steps over a dorm or a private room: the rows it reads are the rows it
+	// serves. `idx_rooms_name_lower` can't do that — it holds every dorm, and a prefix seek
+	// on it checks each private room it passes against the blob.
+	`CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_room_search_name ON room (name_lower)
+	 WHERE is_dorm IS NOT 1 AND accessibility = 1 AND exclude_from_search IS NOT 1`,
 	// A room's tags, one row per tag (migrations/0013_room_tag.sql). Modelled on the
 	// `api` worker's `event_tag`, and the table is AUTHORITATIVE: `serializeRoom` strips
 	// `Tags` from the blob and the reads re-attach it, the same arrangement `subroom` and
@@ -3691,6 +3699,38 @@ export async function searchRooms(
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * Searchable rooms whose name BEGINS with `query` (case-insensitive), alphabetically, at
+ * most `take` — the website's header search, which asks on every pause in typing.
+ *
+ * Not {@link searchRooms}: that is the game's search, a SUBSTRING match no index can
+ * serve, so it reads every searchable room per call. This is a range seek on
+ * `idx_room_search_name` (`>= q AND < q+U+10FFFF`, as {@link searchAccounts} does for
+ * usernames), walked in `ORDER BY` order so the LIMIT stops it: D1 bills `take` rows
+ * however many rooms exist. The WHERE repeats {@link SEARCHABLE_WHERE} verbatim because
+ * SQLite only uses a partial index whose condition the query states; the LIKE is a
+ * residual so `%`/`_` match literally. Rooms come back un-hydrated (no subrooms, tags or
+ * badges) — the caller draws a name, a picture and the counters.
+ */
+export async function searchRoomsByName(
+	db: D1Database,
+	query: string,
+	take: number
+): Promise<Room[]> {
+	const q = query.trim().toLowerCase()
+	if (q === '' || take <= 0) return []
+	const { results } = await db
+		.prepare(
+			`SELECT ${ROOM_COLUMNS} FROM room
+			 WHERE ${SEARCHABLE_WHERE}
+			   AND name_lower >= ?1 AND name_lower < ?2 AND name_lower LIKE ?3 ESCAPE '\\'
+			 ORDER BY name_lower LIMIT ?4`
+		)
+		.bind(q, prefixUpperBound(q), `${escapeLike(q)}%`, take)
+		.all<RoomRow>()
+	return parseAll(results).filter(isSearchable)
+}
+
 /**
  * Search suggestions for the box the player is typing in
  * (`GET /rooms/autocomplete_search`) — a list of plain STRINGS, not rooms.