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One of the most annoying things is to open a thread and be forced to click all over the place to see comments rolled up under each other. You can't even search comments inside a single post until you have somehow unwound everything. Thats why I use Sync for Reddit and will logout proper if they dump 3rd party clients.
The product has gone downhill ever since.
Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.
Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.
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At one point, their search used LucidWorks Fusion [1], a commercial product based around Solr (that uses Lucene indexes under the hood) but also integrates a vector database and the like for semantic search. The linked wiki page still has Lucene-style queries. [1]: https://lucidworks.com/customers/reddit/
That's kind of my point, Solr and Lucene put the index in memory.
Off topic: If Anyone reading this thinking of joining reddit you can navigate it two ways without getting engaged(also enraged) with the the scum and filth and rage-baits that is r/all or r/popular. 1). Use old.reddit.com, create an account ( it will bait you to enter your email, but its not necessary to proceed. ). Go to subreddits that you want to follow, there are hundreds of niche subreddits which are frankly qui…
An important thing is also that reddit still doesn't require a mail address. Just click continue on the signup form without filling in the mail and bypass the dark pattern.
Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.
Then if you’d like you could just view said thread as a tree but it’s still a single threaded comment thread.
My problem with trees is that unless expanded and then flattened finding the newest relevant comments is more trouble than it’s worth.
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That's kind of my point, Solr and Lucene put the index in memory.
Can't the index be shared across a cluster? Possibly with multiple replicas for a share to allow for servers to easily go up and down?
Over time I’m starting to dislike threaded comments. I kind of wish everything was a single thread with numbers and people could reply to specific numbered comments. Then if you’d like you could just view said thread as a tree but it’s still a single threaded comment thread. My problem with trees is that unless expanded and then flattened finding the newest relevant comments is more trouble than it’s worth.
Over time I’m starting to dislike threaded comments. I kind of wish everything was a single thread with numbers and people could reply to specific numbered comments. Then if you’d like you could just view said thread as a tree but it’s still a single threaded comment thread. My problem with trees is that unless expanded and then flattened finding the newest relevant comments is more trouble than it’s worth.
I have to say I strongly disagree with this take. I hate it every time that I have to go through a thread that’s just comment under comment. It’s so hard to keep up with multiple conversations going around.
After a few hundred I personally don’t bother. great example is the musk Twitter thread. Good luck finding the globally newest comment.