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

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Post by toomim »

shmde wrote: post #6

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…

And you can install the "old reddit redirect" extension in chrome to make this automatic.

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

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Post by Frotag »

shmde wrote: post #6

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…

For (1), a userscript like this does wonders. There's also a way to replace new-reddit links with the old-version, but it takes a bit of tinkering to get it to work on google.

  // ==UserScript==
  // @name     old_reddit
  // @description replaces www.reddit with old.reddit
  // @match    *://www.reddit.com/*
  // ==/UserScript==

  const url = new URL(window.location.href);
  window.location.replace(`https://old.reddit.com${url.pathname}`)

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

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Post by JetAlone »

You could use it to easily find any ongoing conversations on the site, about , anywhere, and thereby be laser focus on artificially butting into the discussions about that thing. If this became common practice, perhaps we will see people externally agreeing to proxies for certain words so they can discuss certain topics publically on reddit without getting "jungled". Or maybe the feature isn't going to be used that much. I don't know.

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

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Post by jedberg »

Frotag wrote: post #12
shmde wrote: post #6

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…

For (1), a userscript like this does wonders. There's also a way to replace new-reddit links with the old-version, but it takes a bit of tinkering to get it to work on google. // ==UserScript== // @name old_reddit // @description replaces www.reddit with old.reddit // @match *://www.reddit.com/* // ==/UserScript== const url = new URL(window.location.href); window.location.replace(`https://old.reddit.com${url.pathname…

Or just log in and tick the box that says "always use old reddit" and then it will always use old reddit.

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

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Post by lovelearning »

tmikaeld wrote: post #4

Interesting, I wonder what they used for the search database, since that enormous amount of text can't fit in RAM, it would have to be partitioned & sharded in something like Scylla DB

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/

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

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Post by jimmySixDOF »

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.

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

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Post by ddorian43 »

tmikaeld wrote: post #4

Interesting, I wonder what they used for the search database, since that enormous amount of text can't fit in RAM, it would have to be partitioned & sharded in something like Scylla DB

can't use scylladb as a search engine

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

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Post by vgel »

JetAlone wrote: post #13

You could use it to easily find any ongoing conversations on the site, about , anywhere, and thereby be laser focus on artificially butting into the discussions about that thing. If this became common practice, perhaps we will see people externally agreeing to proxies for certain words so they can discuss certain topics publically on reddit without getting "jungled". Or maybe the feature isn't going to be used that m…

You see this on Twitter sometimes -- people talk about "en eff tees", I think both to avoid people searching for the term and to be seen by people who have "NFT" muted.

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

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Post by easrng »

vgel wrote: post #18
JetAlone wrote: post #13

You could use it to easily find any ongoing conversations on the site, about , anywhere, and thereby be laser focus on artificially butting into the discussions about that thing. If this became common practice, perhaps we will see people externally agreeing to proxies for certain words so they can discuss certain topics publically on reddit without getting "jungled". Or maybe the feature isn't going to be used that m…

You see this on Twitter sometimes -- people talk about "en eff tees", I think both to avoid people searching for the term and to be seen by people who have "NFT" muted.

They also do it to avoid bots that will reply with things like

  BabyDogeSugarMoonRocket NFT Airdrop :rocket: :rocket: :moon:
  :face_with_dollar_eyes: Get free $BDS token now!
  :diamond: BabyDogeSugarMoonRocket.io
  Claim now!
Or other such annoyances.
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