![]() If you cared about user experience, you wouldn’t have waited until 2022 to introduce such basic functionality as the ability to search across comments. That’s just standard press talk without substance. “At Reddit, one thing we think about every day is how we can make it easier for people to find and engage in communities, content and conversations,” the company said. Why Reddit was dragging its feet with comment search And last but not least, a redesigned search results page on desktop and mobile now uses a simple design and prioritize posts over other content types. This has led to a 60 percent spike in results for queries that previously didn’t receive results.įor example, let’s say someone searches for “dogecoin stonks 2021,” and doesn’t find what they’re looking for because there isn’t an exact match with our new treatment, they’re more likely to get related results (and more of them) than they would have before.Īs a bonus, your queries should yield more relevant results than before because Reddit is now using additional signals such as post interactions and global users patterns. Read: How to view and delete your Google search historyĪccording to the company, 100 percent of a query no longer has to match the text of a post to return relevant results. Also, your search queries can now contain typos because Reddit is no longer strict about finding matches using the exact keywords you provided. On top of comment search, Reddit has refined the existing search features to allow for less restrictive matching. The official Reddit apps currently don’t support the ability to search across comments, and Reddit has not made it clear whether comment search would eventually get implemented on mobile. To access it, go to your home feed and click within the search bar, then conduct your search. Now, they can easily see all the different recommendations on the best places for high tea that people have shared in comments.Ĭomment search is available globally to all Reddit users through the desktop website. If someone wants to find a thread about the best locations in London, previously they would have to look through each post in the r/London community, browsing the comments to find it. With comment search, you can pinpoint a place in a long thread where someone made a comment that matches your search criteria. ![]() Before you could search across posts, communities and specific users but you couldn’t get more specific than that. Reddit has now updated its search feature to index the billions of comments on the platform. Before, you could only search posts, communities and usersįinally! You can now search across Reddit commentsįinding the right piece of information in a long, long Reddit thread is no longer a gargantuan task thanks to comment search.Comment search may expose users to content outside regular posts. ![]()
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