Has been a thought of time for the last week.
Hashtags (#'s) don’t make sense for text filtering. It’s not hard per-se, to change this as a developer, but it does require you to fork the chat and blah blah blah. Just to convert all “#”'s for "*"s, and only the filtered ones.
Small change, but just makes more sense for filtering.
You ************!
You ############! Also seems to take more space, now that I noticed.