diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0ef555b..e70e205 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -51,15 +51,15 @@ If you'd rather run the Docker image yourself, you can read more about that in t
 
 ## Other implementations
 
-Campfire also has implementations in Django, Laravel, Elixir, Go and Rust:
+Campfire also has implementations in Django, Laravel, Express, Elixir, Go and Rust:
 
-| HTTP workload (requests/sec) | Rails | [Django](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-django) | [Laravel](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-laravel) | [Elixir](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-elixir) | [Go](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-go) | [Rust](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-rust) |
-|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
-| Room page | 242 | 170 | 164 | 722 | 3,860 | 36,260 |
-| Messages page | 402 | 196 | 175 | 1,053 | 5,573 | 40,872 |
-| Sidebar | 541 | 615 | 715 | 1,275 | 19,753 | 34,672 |
-| Search | 424 | 315 | 305 | 1,156 | 7,053 | 33,299 |
-| Post a message | 225 | 154 | 137 | 801 | 4,767 | 6,896 |
+| HTTP workload (requests/sec) | Rails | [Django](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-django) | [Laravel](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-laravel) | [Express](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-express) | [Elixir](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-elixir) | [Go](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-go) | [Rust](https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-rust) |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| Room page | 241 | 170 | 164 | 559 | 722 | 3,860 | 36,260 |
+| Messages page | 413 | 196 | 175 | 777 | 1,053 | 5,573 | 40,872 |
+| Sidebar | 552 | 615 | 715 | 4,125 | 1,275 | 19,753 | 34,672 |
+| Search | 435 | 315 | 305 | 1,294 | 1,156 | 7,053 | 33,299 |
+| Post a message | 273 | 154 | 137 | 256 | 801 | 4,767 | 6,896 |
 
 Measured with 16 concurrent clients on an AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395,
 with four hardware threads allocated to each app.
diff --git a/app/javascript/lib/autocomplete/base_autocomplete_handler.js b/app/javascript/lib/autocomplete/base_autocomplete_handler.js
index 28b7fd0..9f1f352 100644
--- a/app/javascript/lib/autocomplete/base_autocomplete_handler.js
+++ b/app/javascript/lib/autocomplete/base_autocomplete_handler.js
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ export default class BaseAutocompleteHandler {
 
   #fetchAutocompletables(url) {
     if (url) {
-      return fetch(url, { as: "json" }).then(response => response.json())
+      return fetch(url, { headers: { Accept: "application/json" } }).then(response => response.json())
     } else {
       return Promise.resolve()
     }
diff --git a/app/models/message/pagination.rb b/app/models/message/pagination.rb
index 3be7983..0e7690b 100644
--- a/app/models/message/pagination.rb
+++ b/app/models/message/pagination.rb
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ module Message::Pagination
     end
 
     def paged?
-      count > PAGE_SIZE
+      offset(PAGE_SIZE).exists?
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/models/message/searchable.rb b/app/models/message/searchable.rb
index 58ea47f..b792cd0 100644
--- a/app/models/message/searchable.rb
+++ b/app/models/message/searchable.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,15 @@ module Message::Searchable
     after_update_commit  :update_in_index
     after_destroy_commit :remove_from_index
 
-    scope :search, ->(query) { joins("join message_search_index idx on messages.id = idx.rowid").where("idx.body match ?", query).ordered }
+    scope :search, ->(query) { joins("join message_search_index idx on messages.id = idx.rowid").where("idx.body match ?", match_terms(query)).ordered }
+  end
+
+  class_methods do
+    # Quotes each word, so that FTS5 searches for AND, OR, NOT and NEAR rather than
+    # parsing them as operators, which fails on a query like "AND" or "salt AND".
+    def match_terms(query)
+      query.split.map { |word| %("#{word.gsub('"', '""')}") }.join(" ")
+    end
   end
 
   private
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb b/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
index 00f7e5b..23a66c5 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@
       <div class="flash" data-controller="element-removal" data-action="animationend->element-removal#remove">
         <div class="flash__inner shadow" style="<%= "--flash-background: var(--color-negative)" if flash[:alert] %>">
           <% if flash[:alert] %>
-            <%= image_tag "alert.svg", aria: { hidden: true }, size: 24, class: "colorize--white" %></span>
+            <%= image_tag "alert.svg", aria: { hidden: true }, size: 24, class: "colorize--white" %>
           <% else %>
-            <%= image_tag "check.svg", aria: { hidden: true }, size: 24, class: "colorize--white" %></span>
+            <%= image_tag "check.svg", aria: { hidden: true }, size: 24, class: "colorize--white" %>
           <% end %>
         </div>
         <span class="for-screen-reader" role="alert" aria-atomic="true"><%= notice %></span>
diff --git a/app/views/messages/boosts/_boosts.html.erb b/app/views/messages/boosts/_boosts.html.erb
index 4d0d06f..d1a340a 100644
--- a/app/views/messages/boosts/_boosts.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/messages/boosts/_boosts.html.erb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
     <%= turbo_frame_tag message, :new_boost do %>
       <div class="flex-inline message__boost-inline" data-controller="soft-keyboard">
-        <%= link_to new_message_boost_path(message), class: "boost__action txt-small btn", action: "soft-keyboard#open" do %>
+        <%= link_to new_message_boost_path(message), class: "boost__action txt-small btn", data: { action: "soft-keyboard#open" } do %>
           <%= image_tag "boost.svg", size: 20, aria: { hidden: "true" } %>
           <span class="for-screen-reader">Add a boost</span>
         <% end %>
diff --git a/db/migrate/20261004225000_add_room_id_and_created_at_index_to_messages.rb b/db/migrate/20261004225000_add_room_id_and_created_at_index_to_messages.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a46b27b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20261004225000_add_room_id_and_created_at_index_to_messages.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+class AddRoomIdAndCreatedAtIndexToMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration[8.2]
+  def change
+    add_index :messages, %i[ room_id created_at ]
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index e7f1540..8a900cb 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema[8.2].define(version: 2025_12_12_154340) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema[8.2].define(version: 2026_10_04_225000) do
   create_table "accounts", force: :cascade do |t|
     t.datetime "created_at", null: false
     t.text "custom_styles"
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema[8.2].define(version: 2025_12_12_154340) do
     t.integer "room_id", null: false
     t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
     t.index ["creator_id"], name: "index_messages_on_creator_id"
+    t.index ["room_id", "created_at"], name: "index_messages_on_room_id_and_created_at"
     t.index ["room_id"], name: "index_messages_on_room_id"
   end
 
diff --git a/test/controllers/messages/boosts_controller_test.rb b/test/controllers/messages/boosts_controller_test.rb
index c04cd55..8cc7de9 100644
--- a/test/controllers/messages/boosts_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/controllers/messages/boosts_controller_test.rb
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ class Messages::BoostsControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
     @message = messages(:first)
   end
 
+  test "index wires the new boost link to the soft keyboard" do
+    get message_boosts_url(@message)
+
+    assert_response :success
+    assert_select ".message__boost-inline a.boost__action[data-action='soft-keyboard#open']"
+  end
+
   test "create" do
     assert_turbo_stream_broadcasts [ @message.room, :messages ], count: 1 do
       assert_difference -> { @message.boosts.count }, 1 do
diff --git a/test/controllers/searches_controller_test.rb b/test/controllers/searches_controller_test.rb
index 80abfb4..34ff01b 100644
--- a/test/controllers/searches_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/controllers/searches_controller_test.rb
@@ -20,6 +20,24 @@ class SearchesControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
     assert_select ".message", text: /Hello world!/
   end
 
+  test "operator words are searched for as words" do
+    rooms(:designers).messages.create! body: "Salt and pepper", client_message_id: "operators", creator: users(:david)
+
+    get searches_url, params: { q: "salt AND" }
+
+    assert_response :success
+    assert_select ".message", text: /Salt and pepper/
+  end
+
+  test "searching for an operator word alone doesn't fail" do
+    %w[ AND OR NOT ].each do |word|
+      get searches_url, params: { q: word }
+
+      assert_response :success
+      assert_select ".message", count: 0
+    end
+  end
+
   test "unreachable messages are not found" do
     memberships(:david_designers).destroy!
 
diff --git a/test/models/message_test.rb b/test/models/message_test.rb
index 5ffecea..a5b73f0 100644
--- a/test/models/message_test.rb
+++ b/test/models/message_test.rb
@@ -65,6 +65,24 @@ class MessageTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     assert_equal room.messages.ordered.first(Message::Pagination::PAGE_SIZE).map(&:id), room.messages.first_page.map(&:id)
   end
 
+  test "paged? tells whether a room has more than a page of messages without counting them all" do
+    room = Rooms::Closed.create!(name: "Paging", creator: users(:david))
+    Message.insert_all Array.new(Message::Pagination::PAGE_SIZE) { |i| { room_id: room.id, creator_id: users(:david).id, client_message_id: "paging-#{i}" } }
+
+    assert_no_queries_match(/COUNT/i) do
+      assert_not room.messages.paged?
+
+      Message.insert_all [ { room_id: room.id, creator_id: users(:david).id, client_message_id: "paging-next" } ]
+      assert room.messages.paged?
+    end
+  end
+
+  test "search reads quotes and operator words in the query as text" do
+    message = rooms(:designers).messages.create!(body: "Say hi, NOT bye", client_message_id: "quoted", creator: users(:david))
+
+    assert_equal [ message ], Message.search(%(say "hi NOT)).to_a
+  end
+
   private
     def create_new_message_in(room)
       room.messages.create!(creator: users(:jason), body: "Hello", client_message_id: "123")
diff --git a/test/system/starting_pings_test.rb b/test/system/starting_pings_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ddb5b4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/system/starting_pings_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+require "application_system_test_case"
+
+class StartingPingsTest < ApplicationSystemTestCase
+  setup do
+    sign_in "kevin@37signals.com"
+  end
+
+  test "suggesting people to ping" do
+    visit new_rooms_direct_url
+
+    find("[data-autocomplete-target='input']").send_keys("Jas")
+
+    assert_selector "suggestion-option[role='option']", text: "Jason"
+  end
+end