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Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#101

Post by groffee »

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability.

I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search.

So honest question, how does a multi-million dollar site just not have such basic functionality? Does it not matter?

Better question, and this is something I see time and again, how do sites missing such basic functionality even get any funding to start with? It's just weird. Reddit didn't even have a working user block till recently either.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#102

Post by dharmaturtle »

jimmySixDOF wrote: post #16

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.

I love Sync for Reddit. This script loads more comments inline:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5578-reddit-load-continue-...

For some reason the icons are large, so I tweaked the CSS to make it smaller. Don't recall my exact change though >_>

Video of it in action: https://imgur.com/a/lOansZO

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#103

Post by justaj »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #97
czechdeveloper wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Reddit long term and /r/all was always bad and you should find your subreddits to care for.

How do you discover subreddits if not by browsing /all? I mean I for one don't know what I'm missing.

This is one way: https://old.reddit.com/reddits/

Another is subreddit search engines like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823109

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#104

Post by dandellion »

nvr219 wrote: post #81
honksillet wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And hope it does not get quarantined then disappeared? No thanks.

Has this happened to you ever? I’ve been on reddit for 10 years, and this never happened to me.

I've also been on reddit for more than 10 years and it's also never happened to me, but I know what they're talking about. Let's not pretend like it doesn't happen.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#105

Post by easytiger »

Hardly worth it. I one designed & maintained an archive of certain subreddits. Now nuked for various reasons.

The modding to craft a narrative and ban dissenting right think is so pervasive (and even the admins banning individual wrongthink comments) that what you see on the site doesn't represent what people posted.

It's toxic beyond repair.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#106

Post by ahtihn »

groffee wrote: post #101

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…

I don't understand why search is something that Reddit needs to have. Google does the job perfectly fine. Search isn't a core feature for Reddit and it's certainly not "basic" functionality.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#107

Post by endisneigh »

lvl102 wrote: post #91
endisneigh wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you mean... like if people could vote on the best comments, and you could sort by the votes? The issue is that figuring out what is actually useful is intractable and subjective.

No, it’s a bit more complicated than that because the comments are threaded. It could take a few passing to find a gem comment. Also, the comments evolve over time meaning you might not find anything at the time of your browsing.

But even with a single thread you’d have the same problem. How would you know what’s useful beyond using votes and sorting?

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#109

Post by site-packages1 »

dandellion wrote: post #104
nvr219 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has this happened to you ever? I’ve been on reddit for 10 years, and this never happened to me.

I've also been on reddit for more than 10 years and it's also never happened to me, but I know what they're talking about. Let's not pretend like it doesn't happen.

I have seen it happen through complaints reaching the all subreddit. However it only seemed to happen to subreddits that were peddling deep hatred against outgroups like people of color, overweight people, or were just vile. Your comment makes it seem like any given subreddit is in danger of quarantining, but anecdotally that doesn't seem to be the case. However, I have an open mind: would you give me an example of a subreddit that was otherwise innocuous yet got quarantined?

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#110

Post by CryptoBanker »

ahtihn wrote: post #106
groffee wrote: post #101

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…

I don't understand why search is something that Reddit needs to have. Google does the job perfectly fine. Search isn't a core feature for Reddit and it's certainly not "basic" functionality.

But then Reddit doesn’t get to collect all the search data. I would imagine knowing what people are actually looking for is quite valuable
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