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Reddit App Now Lets You Search Comments on Posts Directly From the Search Bar

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Reddit's official app now provides users with the ability to search for comments within a specific post directly from the search bar.

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After updating to version 2023.08.0 of the iOS app, when viewing a post, users can now search within the comments of that post, rather than all of Reddit. The developers describe it like so:
We've been listening to your feedback and you can now search comments within a post on desktop, iOS, and Android apps. So what does this mean? You don't have to "cmd-f" on the post page anymore and you can search comment threads without expanding them. No more long scrolling sessions — quickly get to the parts of the conversation you're looking for and jump in where you want.
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Reddit says the feature is now available on desktop, iOS, and Android. The tool builds upon the ability to get search results from replies to original posts, which Reddit introduced in April last year.

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In addition, Reddit says it has improved its subreddit search algorithm so that it now delivers a larger number of and more relevant subreddits for most searches. Improvements have also been made to the autocomplete function, which should make it easier to search for communities without having to type in the exact name to find relevant results, according to the developers.

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maflynn said:
reddit is a dumpster fire. It has its uses but damn, I try to avoid it
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That's twitter, a cesspit and dumpster fire in one. Reddit I find is more reliable for product reviews than Amazons own reviews and guidance on many topics (e.g. software suggestions). Plus I enjoy the humour displayed by many on there.

As with any public domain, you have to take all info with a pinch of salt, but I for one am glad it exists. It has entertained and helped me more than it has ever hindered me.
 
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That's awesome, I'll try it out for like 10 seconds and then switch back to using old.reddit.com on my phone and Mac :cool:
 
The smaller, well moderated, more focussed subreddits are great. They remind me of the glory days of Fidonet and BBS message boards with echomail. Now if only there was a beautiful native Mac desktop application which presented reddit as if it were a series of fidonet echoes.
 
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Seriously anyone that browses Reddit on iOS who hasn’t downloaded Apollo, do it now. It’s vastly superior to the official app.

Tons more features and the video player actually works.
 
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So you have to be on the post to search the comments? If you remember reading a post and remember a certain comment, that’s still lost in the Reddit ether? I wouldn’t be able to do a global search and find that exact comment I remember?
 
maflynn said:
reddit is a dumpster fire. It has its uses but damn, I try to avoid it
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It really depends on WHERE in reddit you go. It's huge.

If you hang out in the big, general subreddits, yeah, things can be pretty crappy because everyone and their brother is there all trying to put in their two bits.

But, the smaller, topically focused subs - those can be quite good. For some things, it's the best place of information available. If you own a Creality 3D printer, for example, the Ender and 3D printing subs are the best source of information and support.

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Also, another Apollo user here who doesn't even use the official iOS app. Apollo FTW.
 
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CarpalMac said:
That's twitter, a cesspit and dumpster fire in one. Reddit I find is more reliable for product reviews than Amazons own reviews and guidance on many topics (e.g. software suggestions). Plus I enjoy the humour displayed by many on there.

As with any public domain, you have to take all info with a pinch of salt, but I for one am glad it exists. It has entertained and helped me more than it has ever hindered me.
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The problem with reddit isn't the users, it's the website and management. The website is a perfect example of all the worst ideas of "engagement" design. Completely unusable. At least they haven't (yet) turned hostile to third party clients. Apollo is the only way to use reddit.
 
00001000bit said:
It really depends on WHERE in reddit you go. It's huge.

If you hang out in the big, general subreddits, yeah, things can be pretty crappy because everyone and their brother is there all trying to put in their two bits.

But, the smaller, topically focused subs - those can be quite good. For some things, it's the best place of information available. If you own a Creality 3D printer, for example, the Ender and 3D printing subs are the best source of information and support.

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Also, another Apollo user here who doesn't even use the official iOS app. Apollo FTW.
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It's very much like the real world, some "neighborhoods" are better than others.
 
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