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

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Post by lvl102 »

endisneigh wrote: post #88
lvl102 wrote: post #87

This is awesome. While, comments are generally lacking in info (but still entertaining) there are always gems in there. It’s a bit like needle-in-haystack. I think there’s even a subreddit dedicated for this. I’d love to see ML/DL deployed to make it easier to find such comments.

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.

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

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Post by glowingly »

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.

That's sort of how I feel about comment trees. ~100-200 comments is the safe max for me, after that, sufficient garbage is present to degrade readability. It's subreddit/topic/ToD dependent, since some are difficult to follow from the beginning.

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

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Post by vimy »

Root_Denied wrote: post #64
jotm wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't comment or even view some subreddits without verifying your email, though. But creating an email address takes 5 minutes at most.

What are some examples of subreddits you can't view without verifying email? I haven't run across any.

The quarantined ones.

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

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Post by codingdave »

czechdeveloper wrote: post #53
fareesh wrote: post #52

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.

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

I have been browsing /r/all for years, but I aggressively filter subreddits out that hold no interest for me. It allows /r/all to be semi-curated content for me, while I still will see something that breaks containment from the niche subreddits.

I don't feel that this makes reddit a great news source or anything - but it does make it palatable entertainment.

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

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Post by philliphaydon »

__alexs wrote: post #90
philliphaydon wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do some people write Postgres as PostGres?

Because it's the database that came after Ingres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL

Ingres and Postgres/PostgreSQL.

I still don't know /why/ some people say PostGres. I've seen it a few times, on HN and elsewhere, but its wrong isn't it?

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

czechdeveloper wrote: post #53
fareesh wrote: post #52

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.

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.

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

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Post by throwaway2048 »

kevincox wrote: post #78
capableweb wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Or just log in and tick the box that says "always use old reddit" and then it will always use old reddit. Not sure if it's just me, but that setting seems to frequently get reset, as I tick that box maybe once a week/two weeks or something, but I keep getting sent to the new reddit at one point. Maybe I accidentally access new.reddit.com which forces the new layout and then reset the setting? In any case, I'm givin…

It's never got reset for me. I've set it once and it's stayed applied across all my desktop browsers. I'm also pretty sure I've visited new.reddit.com and it didn't reset the setting. It doesn't apply to mobile but IMHO the new site is slightly less terrible on mobile than the old one anyways so that's my preference.

if you love constant popups to install their (crappy) app, including not letting you use parts of the site at random, I guess.

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

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Post by tim-- »

MauranKilom wrote: post #76
jokoon wrote: post #71

I use RIF for android and it now has a GDPR consent thing that I refuse everytime. It's amazing that reddit survived its redesign, I wish they would rollback. I'm also curious about how many users still use the old design. If they remove the old design, I would obviously not use reddit anymore, and I don't know if there are viable frontends that would allow me to login.

Last time I looked at the graphs, it was something like a single-digit percentage of users that are still using old.reddit.com, and shrinking.

But how many people does that single percentage number represent? With hundreds of thousands of active accounts, loosing 5% of users is not an insignificant amount of a user base.

I can't see anything replacing Reddit any time soon, though.

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