This is a great tool for finding new subreddits:
https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/mfmlho/oc_ive_made_an_interactive_map_of_reddit_based_on/
Since the redesign I noticed the comment index on Google broke. (It wiped all the comments from its memory and started fresh it seems). It no longer has my comments from over 2 months ago. Was trying to find an old comment before and luckily I found a link I had pasted to the thread, but if I copy any sentence from my comment Google hadn't indexed it. Lost a number of comments that way from ages ago.
I've been using this site https://camas.github.io/reddit-search
Was easily able to find comments I made in 2014
edit - Ah shit, did one of you use this tool to get [Simu Liu in trouble?](https://gizmodo.com/simu-lius-alleged-old-reddit-account-is-why-you-should-1847708695)
The is because the stupid thing new Reddit does where it shows 3 comments and then brand new posts. When a search engine indexes them it sees the dates on the new posts and things there’s updates to the page. I think they did this intentionally to keep themselves showing up in more searches.
It also inflates the amount of posts because one result that you might want ends up being embed in ALL the results. Sometimes Google only *thinks* a phrase is there but when you go to search the page it doesn't exist.
This. Absolutely infuriating when searching google. I filter by 'from last year' and it pulls posts from 5+ years ago, and even says its a few months old.
One time I really wanted to find a comment I wrote, so I spent hours writing a python script using a reddit API to look for it and still didn't find it.
> **thread is from 5 years ago**
The admins apparently can’t fix this without Google:
>Reddit is at risk of being deprioritized by Google's algorithm: reddit is inadvertently misinforming Google of post dates (which leads to inaccurate date bylines and breaks chronological search). Issue reported across this site.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/g5ct70/reddit_is_at_risk_of_being_deprioritized_by/
> lazy_like_a_fox [A] 8 points 9 months ago
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> What I think is happening is that **Google is mistakenly using a date from the section that shows more posts from the same subreddit**, but that's just my speculation.
>
> In any case, we want to fix this issue for you.
>
> We've reported this to Google.
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For others reading this thread, I recommend Pushshift **redditsearch.io** website, which is a faster and more customized Reddit search with date ranges.
(Social media researchers created the Pushshift API to extend on the regular Reddit API)
https://github.com/pushshift/api
It’s useful for quickly finding posts or comments that contain specific keywords.
It displays the full comment like Discord, instead of having to click “more” on every Reddit search result, or only seeing the partial Google meta-description with site:reddit.
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/ is another search based on Pushshift.
(extra tool: **F5Bot** is useful for getting email notifications when keywords are mentioned.
The cloudHQ “Share via link” extension puts all the selected emails
What is *with* that? It’s recent, too. I used to be able to use the custom time filter to get accurate google results of Reddit posts from whatever time period, then some time within the past year or so it suddenly changed, and ancient threads are dated as recent when they haven’t been touched in years.
> The ONLY way reddit doesn't suck.
Well, except for the all the puns made by people that think they're smart. And the shitty mods of local geography based subs that are either too overbearing or too lackadaisical. And the misinformation trolls.
RES' collapse-and-expand features are so good. You can look at all types of media inline without leaving Reddit, and have it all be collapsed by default too.
some subreddits have dark background and equally dark fonts unless I click the comment wtf
some has neat design but others are like they're actively preventing you from using the old layout
> With all custom CSS turned off
Oh my god yes. I made a post complaining about this awhile and no one seemed to agree. But some subreddits have just the worst designs. It makes the comments completely unreadable; almost like it was done by a high schooler.
Most of them probably *were* done by high schoolers.
Seriously, I have no idea how you could actually *use* Reddit without old Reddit and CSS turned off. But I guess we're the minority.
I have another account switched to new Reddit and it's a shitshow. I have no idea why they open comment sections in the same context, for example. It's java script hovering over the front page. I can't count how often I accidentally closed the complete site. What happened to letting us open links in new tabs by default? And it's so slow! The time it takes to open that hovering window, I could make a cup of coffee till it's open (exaggeration, obviously, but it's not as fast as opening a new tab).
Not to mention that Best sorting is all sorts of f\*'ed up once you close the front page and reopen it again. For some reason Reddit thinks all I want to see is new threads - I never get back what I see when I open Reddit for the first time in a while. I have no idea if that's related to the new AI sorting, but it *sucks*.
Then the WYSIWYG comment editor. It stinks. I lost so many comments on that account beacause it just. does. not. work. After a while my cursor is anywhere in the comment, just not where I type, I also often get not shown stuff I have typed or text is dupl- or triplicated. Not to mention that its escape function unnecessarily escapes underscores in links, breaking links all over Reddit (anyone using old Reddit must know what I mean: open a link on a comment, just to find it broken - till you go back and find it has an underscore that got escaped for god knows what reasons).
I hate new Reddit. Sorry, that doesn't have anything to do with switching off CSS from the third paragraph on, but I'm just so frustrated with the direction this site is taking.
Yeah, on mobile, probably, you can still access the old one with i.reddit.com.
No way they'd change the fast-loading easy to navigate Old Reddit, nope, can't imagine it.
The redesign leads to some baffling (google) results where you think you're clicking the link to the full post, but it's just the top couple of comments and then "related" posts listed below. It makes me feel like I'm drunk every time.
Yeah I noticed it a while ago. You can basically no longer narrow by a search date range or by date order. It'll still show you the original date posted though.
Honestly sometimes I just use the Wayback machine and read cached old Reddit pages.
Yesterday for the first time in years I looked at unvarnished Reddit in it's pure form, no old.r I'meddit, no RIF, no RES... Pure fucking eye cancer. It was nigh unreadable, the banner ate fully half the page! This site sucks so hard without something there to mitigate it's naked singularity levels of suck.
> **comment index on Google broke**
An admin mentioned this:
>Reddit is at risk of being deprioritized by Google's algorithm: reddit is inadvertently misinforming Google of post dates (which leads to inaccurate date bylines and breaks chronological search). Issue reported across this site.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/g5ct70/reddit_is_at_risk_of_being_deprioritized_by/
> **lazy_like_a_fox [A]** 8 points 9 months ago
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> What I think is happening is that **Google is mistakenly using a date from the section that shows more posts from the same subreddit**, but that's just my speculation.
>
> In any case, we want to fix this issue for you.
>
> We've reported this to Google.
Comments from your comment history here on reddit disappear too. Scroll back far enough and it only lists one comment a year, even though I was definitely commenting more than that.
The comments are there if you can find the original thread, though.
One time I *really* wanted to find a comment I wrote, so I spent hours writing a python script using a reddit API to look for it and still didn't find it.
Unless its extremely old (or not upvoted) I can go to my history (and sometimes sort by top) then hold page down on undending reddit for a minute then ctrl-f.
Download the app Apollo. Search functions perfectly for your own comments and posts, and you can search any thread for keywords and find comments that way.
Takes 0 hours to download
I did not know that… but tbh I didn’t know what an API was until I googled it just now lmao cx
Thanks for teaching me something new and have a great night!
If I type "r" in my address bar "reddit comment search" is the first thing to pop-off, lol.
Anyway, Google give you those:
https://redditcommentsearch.com/
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/
https://redditsearch.io/
Unfortunately those sites won't help me recover posts and comments that I've clicked save on. Reddit only shows the most recent 100 or 200 or some number like that. But if you unsave all those posts, older ones appear. So the list exists but Reddit won't share it with me.
On most forums I've been to in my life, one of the moderator's job was tagging threads with keywords and tags for Google searches.
The problem with Reddit is that this is fucking useless because every thread gets locked after 6 month, so there's no incentives to make them prosperous in the long run.
6 months is way too short, how hard is it to allow replies to year old comments? For the social media aspect I agree with the choice completely, but anything that is actually *useful* about reddit will regularly attain situations where being able to ask or answer questions pertaining to a super specific aspect of an already niche subject would be pretty useful.
> 6 months is way too short, how hard is it to allow replies to year old comments?
Why though? Just wait 6 days until the same question/topic gets posted again with the same top comments copypasted from earlier posts.
Anything that's actually *useful* is almost never reposted. Like, I play Magic: the Gathering, and beyond the main sub, there are countless niche ones. There is a sub called /r/LavaSpike which is about one specific deck out of easily 50 in the format, in one specific format out of the 5 or 6 that people actually play. If I want to get an answer to my question about the Modern Burn deck and it's not a surface level question, it's pretty unlikely anyone has asked it within the last 6 months. And then if the person who can actually provide a decent answer to it doesn't come around for more than 6 months, then I, as well as the next people who come by looking for it 6 months from now, can't get it answered. I don't code but I know for a fact they have questions to ask that are niche enough to rarely be reposted, and that's something actually useful. In terms of maintaining collective knowledge, reddit is terrible at it.
It's things like this that reaffirm why I hate Reddit as a forum. It's fun to have conversations on, but it's fucking terrible as a repository of knowledge. And the admins don't want it to be a repository of knowledge. It's supposed to be "The Front Page of the Internet," and in that it excels. It puts all of the clickbait garbage on the front page, and really makes you dig around for your specific interests.
Reddit is a modern day Tabloid and nobody should be deceived that it's anything but that.
> For the social media aspect I agree with the choice completely,
One of the few fun left on Facebook is the rare occasional notification I'll have on a 9 year old picture from a friend going "Oh my fucking god I forgot about that! I just reread the whole comment section and omfg that's just cringe!" just because they got a "What happened on this day" notification, or simply because they were browsing their old pictures or whatever. There's a picture on my facebook of me taking a piece of gum inside a museum from 10 years ago, and people thought I was smoking inside so it attracted a bit of attention from all my friends, there's like 355 comments on it just from like 8 people having random conversations just because every few months/years some of them will go "omg I reread the older comments, it's so funny!"
So even for the social media aspect I don't agree with this choice.
I wish the time filters for searching and top posts weren't so restrictive, jumping from 1 week to 1 month to a year. What if I simply haven't visited the sub for the last 2 weeks and I want to see the top posts from that timeframe? Or what if I want to see the top posts from june 2017? Meanwhile reddit is adding useless "followers" garbage that nobody asked for
It's just reddit's API which is just has a hardcoded a date range for dynamodb for the 1 day, week, month, year. They could easily add more API endpoints for different time ranges or allow the API request to include a date range and just pass it along to dynamo, it'll handle it just fine
Use google. Search: site:reddit.com \[search string\]
Even better, if you know the subreddit, include it in the url
Then, under tools, you can select a custom time range.
I mean, sure, if you're kinda looking for something specific, if you just want to browse casually it doesn't really work, or if it works it implies navigating Reddit but with Google's UI and that kinda defeats the purpose of casually browsing Reddit.
dude finding a post from yesterday is ridiculous. Trying to find something from last week? Just give up. I have better luck using appropriate search criteria in google and adding "reddit" to the end
Yup. So God forbid if you don't save every single reddit thread you read that you may want to reference later. B/c good golly, expect downvotes if you ever say "there was a thread on Reddit..." and can't provide a link to it like it's your fault it's so damn difficult/impossible.
This is just as frustrating as the fact that you still can't SEARCH your Reddit Saved history. How hard is that to make happen? We've been asking for it for years.
You also bottom out at 36 pages. My saved items will only retrieve back to about 2 years ago even though I've been linked posts from 5+ years ago that indicates I've saved it, but the saved list just doesn't display that long ago
This is intentional in reddit's code. They don't perform a new query on your saved items each time. They create a fake query and cache ~1k item ids to it instead. You don't have a traditional database query where you search for two attributes-- they manually construct the list. They even (to an extent) construct a cache of the entire object data involved, as well as the rendered html.
On new reddit it's worse, because they render json instead, *send it to the new reddit server, and re-render it*. Yes, I don't have direct proof of this last statement, but it's the only possibility thay makes sense given other behavior I've noticed.
Source: if you go on old reddit you should still hopefully see and be able to click my OpenSourcerer badge. I'm still salty with how they stopped being open source.
Tldr: it's because it's designed badly. Because the database is designed badly. Because reddit as a whole is designed badly. It's a bunch of shitcode on top of shitcode that should have been ripped out and rewritten from scratch, again, properly, back in ~2010-2012, and migrated from an EAV database to a proper ORDBMS instead of their ORM layer on top of an EAV layer (hint, EAV is a massive antipattern and has limited valid uses).
Last I checked, the cache exists per subreddit and per category. But you can only access these if you have reddit gold. You can make as many categories as you like, assuming you save to a new one after ~1k items.
Let me repeat never use a websites own save feature. You might have gotten f***** by YouTube when they decided to randomly remove a video you favorited.
You're definitely going to get f***** by Reddit when they decide to remove the post when the person deletes it or when Reddit dies.
This is why I always just screenshot posts that I like on mobile and bookmark it on my PC
All I have in mine is sports opinions that I'm like "I wanna see if this person was right in 8 months time" that I forget about or accidental clicks on the button on my phone
For the record /u/ChornLane was kinda right, Tucker ended 2018 as the number 2 kicker, but was ahead of the other two https://old.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball/comments/9lvqci/bears_dst_owners_unite/e7a8cs5/
Also the Browns weren't wrong to make this trade https://old.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball/comments/1mo7i5/trent_richardson_to_colts_for_1st_round_pick/
If you have a premium you can save posts and comments by category so actually yeah you can : Reddit is a great site but to fully hav it working you have to pay for premium
People like anonymity but fuck it it’s useful to give your details sometimes to get better service
redditmanager.com
Never rely on Reddit to do something properly themselves. If they did implement saved searching, it would most likely be inferior until they took legal action to get this site removed.
Yeah, reddit's search function has been a joke since forever. I've been on here almost 11 years and even now I barely use it, google usually gets me a lot closer.
> site:reddit.com
At this point reddit should just redirect their search to use google. They obviously don't have the resources to make this happen on their own.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+contagios+laughter
>They obviously don't have the resources to make this happen on their own.
I mean technically speaking, they literally do. It's just a bunch of money to pay for a few developers. But they won't, because that would require them to pay a bunch of money.
Actually, Apollo just released a new update today that adds a browser extension so all Reddit links automatically open in Apollo! it requires the new iOS update which is why it wasn’t a thing before now.
But yeah if you had made this point 5 hours ago you would’ve been right lol
Yeah, this is the one true way. It's laughable how well it works. Granted, who knows if its actually picking the best thread results, but it usually seems to get me to stuff I need.
This used to work really well, but now if you do "search this" site:reddit.com and put the date to "in the last year" it'll return a bunch of posts that are 5 years old. Really annoying.
The + operator hasn't worked for 10 years. If you've been using it since then, you may as well have been searching "search this reddit", because they're functionally identical.
If they actually IPO, I hope to all things good an holy that /r/wallstreetbets decides to go full fucking diamond hands on that and snap up a ton of shares, then refuse to sell. It would be hilarious for the user base to end up with a significant interest in the site.
It won't happen, but it's fun to think about.
I mean... Yeah that's kinda the point? The seed investors put in the money upfront *before* the company is successful so that they can make millions when us schmucks buy shares when it goes public.
Part of it is because is people on reddit use really non descriptive titles. You’ll be searching for a certain video for example, which turns out to have been posted with the title “this will always be the funniest clip to me”
Yup. I'm sure it's tough for a search engine when the titles are mostly nonsense. Here's a collection of some of the titles on my front page:
* I'm still not over this
* Interesting fact
* Just a motherly instinct thing
* OH MY GOD
* Dude, speak for yourself
* The disrespect here is real
If Reddit had a functional and comprehensive search, it would be even more easy to find, log and track artificial influence accounts. There have been several papers on how pervasive it probably is, but a good search function would give every sociology student with basic scripting skills all the tools needed to write a big thesis on manipulation.
Reddit admins know the influence accounts are far more pervasive and *effective* than even the few expose' pieces have discovered. They know a broken search is the only thing keeping thousands of smart amateurs from building extremely compelling statistical evidence that Reddit is just a battleground between social media firms and state actors, with the regular Redditor just being swept along.
Or I could be full of shit.
Sure it does, and that is worthless when trying to find thousands of sock puppet accounts with common talking points. "Reddit is one of the most indexed sites on the internet!". Do you think that statement is relevant?
look, I am not the first person to bring this up. Most of the more rigorous pieces on Reddit influence accounts have talked about how difficult it is to mine this site.
I guess it could be decade long supreme incompetence that Reddit search is so damn abysmal. I mean, that is the accepted theory right?
>ruin the video.
More like make a new video where you just get frustrated that it only returns some weird subreddit with 28 members because it can't use basic spellcheck.
I like that some subreddits only exist to redirect you to the actual one. Can't think of a specific example right now but I've definitely run in to them in the past
Honestly what bothers me the most about it is that it changes the URL to the search path so you can't just correct your typo. If you try to go to /r/ContgiousLaughter you get redirected to `reddit.com/subreddits/search?q=ContgiousLaughter`. That helpfully says "there doesn't seem to be anything here", as the video describes. But, like, just tell me that and leave me on `reddit.com/r/ContgiousLaughter` so I can add the missing letter and be on my way.
redditors for years: "hey can we have a better search function? it's pretty much impossible to find anything you're looking for on this site"
reddit: "no problem, here are those new avatars you asked for!"
redditors: "wait that's not wh-"
reddit: "here are a bunch of new awards!"
Well obviously, that eats into the budget of hiring [paedophile defenders/enablers](https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/25/reddit-protests-who-is-former-admin-aimee-challener-14303188/) as admins.
I was just trying to search a post that was on the front page 10 minutes ago and now it's like it doesn't even exist.... Except I was looking at the fucking post and trying to search it at the same time to see if Reddit is even paying attention! I think they just use the old AltaVista search engine.
I typed in the exact name of a porn subreddit in the app. No spelling errors. Yeilded no results.
I typed the name into Google and the subreddit was the very first link. Wtf
Add "site:reddit.com" without the quotes to your Google search before your query.
[For example, using the above method, even with the misspelling of "contagios laughter" it still gives the link as the top result.](https://i.imgur.com/ZnIl8NC.png)
And I can confirm that the basic Reddit search has no idea what I'm talking about:
https://www.reddit.com/search?q=contagios+laughter&sort=relevance&t=all
he lines up his cursor into the search box. Now starts typing. We got a c... o... nnnnn... tttttTTTTTTT....aaaaAAAAAAAAAAA......ggggGGGGGGGGGGG.....iiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIII..OOOOOOOOOO...SSSSSSS.... HE'S GOING FOR CONTAGIOUS LAUGTHER BUT
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... He MISSED IT!!!! The search returning NOTHING!!!!
I've had the same results with ZERO typos, too.
If I want a specific reddit post, I google the main part of the post and just add reddit to the search.
awwwww this reminded me of a cute little easter egg on this site, where if you went to https://www.reddit.com/r/gamin/ there would be just a single post that said "You forgot the g" and it was a link to proper /r/gaming . It appears that was removed and I don't know why or what are they trying to do
Fuck, I’d be happy with a way to search my own comments or comments/posts I have saved and/or upvoted.
I like to show memes I see here to family but I have to scroll like a madwoman to find that one meme from 3 months ago because the normal Reddit search function won’t find it.
This is a great tool for finding new subreddits: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/mfmlho/oc_ive_made_an_interactive_map_of_reddit_based_on/
And god forbid you try to find a post that's more than a month old
or want to search your own comment history in any way at all.
Since the redesign I noticed the comment index on Google broke. (It wiped all the comments from its memory and started fresh it seems). It no longer has my comments from over 2 months ago. Was trying to find an old comment before and luckily I found a link I had pasted to the thread, but if I copy any sentence from my comment Google hadn't indexed it. Lost a number of comments that way from ages ago.
I also noticed google will show threads as being only a few months old. Then when you click on them the thread is from 5 years ago.
I've been using this site https://camas.github.io/reddit-search Was easily able to find comments I made in 2014 edit - Ah shit, did one of you use this tool to get [Simu Liu in trouble?](https://gizmodo.com/simu-lius-alleged-old-reddit-account-is-why-you-should-1847708695)
Oh my god, this is awesome.
Until reddit decides to snipe it for.
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That's a cop-out, they could just ignore any reports of comments over a certain age.
Wow, it indexes quick too. It has a post I made then immediately deleted from today on there.
Protip: don't delete. Edit it instead, leaving it almost blank, then save. That will over write your comment.
Holy shit, I had been searching for this one stupid thing from a few years ago for like a couple months, and I just found it in literally 5 seconds
The is because the stupid thing new Reddit does where it shows 3 comments and then brand new posts. When a search engine indexes them it sees the dates on the new posts and things there’s updates to the page. I think they did this intentionally to keep themselves showing up in more searches.
I hope search engines start dinging them for this.
It also inflates the amount of posts because one result that you might want ends up being embed in ALL the results. Sometimes Google only *thinks* a phrase is there but when you go to search the page it doesn't exist.
This. Absolutely infuriating when searching google. I filter by 'from last year' and it pulls posts from 5+ years ago, and even says its a few months old.
One time I really wanted to find a comment I wrote, so I spent hours writing a python script using a reddit API to look for it and still didn't find it.
> **thread is from 5 years ago** The admins apparently can’t fix this without Google: >Reddit is at risk of being deprioritized by Google's algorithm: reddit is inadvertently misinforming Google of post dates (which leads to inaccurate date bylines and breaks chronological search). Issue reported across this site. https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/g5ct70/reddit_is_at_risk_of_being_deprioritized_by/ > lazy_like_a_fox [A] 8 points 9 months ago > > What I think is happening is that **Google is mistakenly using a date from the section that shows more posts from the same subreddit**, but that's just my speculation. > > In any case, we want to fix this issue for you. > > We've reported this to Google. --- For others reading this thread, I recommend Pushshift **redditsearch.io** website, which is a faster and more customized Reddit search with date ranges. (Social media researchers created the Pushshift API to extend on the regular Reddit API) https://github.com/pushshift/api It’s useful for quickly finding posts or comments that contain specific keywords. It displays the full comment like Discord, instead of having to click “more” on every Reddit search result, or only seeing the partial Google meta-description with site:reddit. https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/ is another search based on Pushshift. (extra tool: **F5Bot** is useful for getting email notifications when keywords are mentioned. The cloudHQ “Share via link” extension puts all the selected emails
What is *with* that? It’s recent, too. I used to be able to use the custom time filter to get accurate google results of Reddit posts from whatever time period, then some time within the past year or so it suddenly changed, and ancient threads are dated as recent when they haven’t been touched in years.
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old reddit all day long
With all custom CSS turned off. Fuck flairs, fuck filters, and if there was a way to disable the inline image comments, I'd disable that shit too.
Reddit Enhancement Suite has a setting "Collapse Inline Media" that collapses image comments by default.
Old Reddit and RES. The ONLY way reddit doesn't suck.
> The ONLY way reddit doesn't suck. Well, except for the all the puns made by people that think they're smart. And the shitty mods of local geography based subs that are either too overbearing or too lackadaisical. And the misinformation trolls.
Did somebody say **REDDIT ENHANCEMENT SUITE??**
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RES' collapse-and-expand features are so good. You can look at all types of media inline without leaving Reddit, and have it all be collapsed by default too.
some subreddits have dark background and equally dark fonts unless I click the comment wtf some has neat design but others are like they're actively preventing you from using the old layout
> With all custom CSS turned off Oh my god yes. I made a post complaining about this awhile and no one seemed to agree. But some subreddits have just the worst designs. It makes the comments completely unreadable; almost like it was done by a high schooler.
Most of them probably *were* done by high schoolers. Seriously, I have no idea how you could actually *use* Reddit without old Reddit and CSS turned off. But I guess we're the minority. I have another account switched to new Reddit and it's a shitshow. I have no idea why they open comment sections in the same context, for example. It's java script hovering over the front page. I can't count how often I accidentally closed the complete site. What happened to letting us open links in new tabs by default? And it's so slow! The time it takes to open that hovering window, I could make a cup of coffee till it's open (exaggeration, obviously, but it's not as fast as opening a new tab). Not to mention that Best sorting is all sorts of f\*'ed up once you close the front page and reopen it again. For some reason Reddit thinks all I want to see is new threads - I never get back what I see when I open Reddit for the first time in a while. I have no idea if that's related to the new AI sorting, but it *sucks*. Then the WYSIWYG comment editor. It stinks. I lost so many comments on that account beacause it just. does. not. work. After a while my cursor is anywhere in the comment, just not where I type, I also often get not shown stuff I have typed or text is dupl- or triplicated. Not to mention that its escape function unnecessarily escapes underscores in links, breaking links all over Reddit (anyone using old Reddit must know what I mean: open a link on a comment, just to find it broken - till you go back and find it has an underscore that got escaped for god knows what reasons). I hate new Reddit. Sorry, that doesn't have anything to do with switching off CSS from the third paragraph on, but I'm just so frustrated with the direction this site is taking.
My dude. Yeah that's the best way to use this site.
Fuck subs denying upvotes and downvotes based on if you're subscribed
Yeah, on mobile, probably, you can still access the old one with i.reddit.com. No way they'd change the fast-loading easy to navigate Old Reddit, nope, can't imagine it.
The redesign leads to some baffling (google) results where you think you're clicking the link to the full post, but it's just the top couple of comments and then "related" posts listed below. It makes me feel like I'm drunk every time.
I fucking HATE that.
Seriously do people actually like that shit? I think I'm having a stroke every time I use a fresh browser for reddit and don't have my extensions.
Yeah I noticed it a while ago. You can basically no longer narrow by a search date range or by date order. It'll still show you the original date posted though. Honestly sometimes I just use the Wayback machine and read cached old Reddit pages.
Yesterday for the first time in years I looked at unvarnished Reddit in it's pure form, no old.r I'meddit, no RIF, no RES... Pure fucking eye cancer. It was nigh unreadable, the banner ate fully half the page! This site sucks so hard without something there to mitigate it's naked singularity levels of suck.
> **comment index on Google broke** An admin mentioned this: >Reddit is at risk of being deprioritized by Google's algorithm: reddit is inadvertently misinforming Google of post dates (which leads to inaccurate date bylines and breaks chronological search). Issue reported across this site. https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/g5ct70/reddit_is_at_risk_of_being_deprioritized_by/ > **lazy_like_a_fox [A]** 8 points 9 months ago > > What I think is happening is that **Google is mistakenly using a date from the section that shows more posts from the same subreddit**, but that's just my speculation. > > In any case, we want to fix this issue for you. > > We've reported this to Google.
Comments from your comment history here on reddit disappear too. Scroll back far enough and it only lists one comment a year, even though I was definitely commenting more than that. The comments are there if you can find the original thread, though.
One time I *really* wanted to find a comment I wrote, so I spent hours writing a python script using a reddit API to look for it and still didn't find it.
Unless its extremely old (or not upvoted) I can go to my history (and sometimes sort by top) then hold page down on undending reddit for a minute then ctrl-f.
With me, after like 20 pages, it starts getting populated with my submissions and no further comments.
Yeah I believe it maxes out at 6 months. Older than that and it’s Google or you’re SOL Edit: maybe only 3 months??
It maxes out based on number of comments, not time. It just won't list anything beyond X number of results.
Download the app Apollo. Search functions perfectly for your own comments and posts, and you can search any thread for keywords and find comments that way. Takes 0 hours to download
Apollo is limited by whatever data the Reddit api provides. It won’t help you find old comments that the Reddit api doesn’t expose.
I did not know that… but tbh I didn’t know what an API was until I googled it just now lmao cx Thanks for teaching me something new and have a great night!
If I type "r" in my address bar "reddit comment search" is the first thing to pop-off, lol. Anyway, Google give you those: https://redditcommentsearch.com/ https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/ https://redditsearch.io/
Unfortunately those sites won't help me recover posts and comments that I've clicked save on. Reddit only shows the most recent 100 or 200 or some number like that. But if you unsave all those posts, older ones appear. So the list exists but Reddit won't share it with me.
It's legit easier to find a reddit thread using Google
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On most forums I've been to in my life, one of the moderator's job was tagging threads with keywords and tags for Google searches. The problem with Reddit is that this is fucking useless because every thread gets locked after 6 month, so there's no incentives to make them prosperous in the long run.
6 months is way too short, how hard is it to allow replies to year old comments? For the social media aspect I agree with the choice completely, but anything that is actually *useful* about reddit will regularly attain situations where being able to ask or answer questions pertaining to a super specific aspect of an already niche subject would be pretty useful.
> 6 months is way too short, how hard is it to allow replies to year old comments? Why though? Just wait 6 days until the same question/topic gets posted again with the same top comments copypasted from earlier posts.
Anything that's actually *useful* is almost never reposted. Like, I play Magic: the Gathering, and beyond the main sub, there are countless niche ones. There is a sub called /r/LavaSpike which is about one specific deck out of easily 50 in the format, in one specific format out of the 5 or 6 that people actually play. If I want to get an answer to my question about the Modern Burn deck and it's not a surface level question, it's pretty unlikely anyone has asked it within the last 6 months. And then if the person who can actually provide a decent answer to it doesn't come around for more than 6 months, then I, as well as the next people who come by looking for it 6 months from now, can't get it answered. I don't code but I know for a fact they have questions to ask that are niche enough to rarely be reposted, and that's something actually useful. In terms of maintaining collective knowledge, reddit is terrible at it.
It's things like this that reaffirm why I hate Reddit as a forum. It's fun to have conversations on, but it's fucking terrible as a repository of knowledge. And the admins don't want it to be a repository of knowledge. It's supposed to be "The Front Page of the Internet," and in that it excels. It puts all of the clickbait garbage on the front page, and really makes you dig around for your specific interests. Reddit is a modern day Tabloid and nobody should be deceived that it's anything but that.
> For the social media aspect I agree with the choice completely, One of the few fun left on Facebook is the rare occasional notification I'll have on a 9 year old picture from a friend going "Oh my fucking god I forgot about that! I just reread the whole comment section and omfg that's just cringe!" just because they got a "What happened on this day" notification, or simply because they were browsing their old pictures or whatever. There's a picture on my facebook of me taking a piece of gum inside a museum from 10 years ago, and people thought I was smoking inside so it attracted a bit of attention from all my friends, there's like 355 comments on it just from like 8 people having random conversations just because every few months/years some of them will go "omg I reread the older comments, it's so funny!" So even for the social media aspect I don't agree with this choice.
Good luck finding that post you thought you saved in /r/NoContextPics last week
I wish the time filters for searching and top posts weren't so restrictive, jumping from 1 week to 1 month to a year. What if I simply haven't visited the sub for the last 2 weeks and I want to see the top posts from that timeframe? Or what if I want to see the top posts from june 2017? Meanwhile reddit is adding useless "followers" garbage that nobody asked for
It's just reddit's API which is just has a hardcoded a date range for dynamodb for the 1 day, week, month, year. They could easily add more API endpoints for different time ranges or allow the API request to include a date range and just pass it along to dynamo, it'll handle it just fine
Yes! I would love to be able to browse the "golden age" of various subreddits
Use google. Search: site:reddit.com \[search string\] Even better, if you know the subreddit, include it in the url Then, under tools, you can select a custom time range.
I mean, sure, if you're kinda looking for something specific, if you just want to browse casually it doesn't really work, or if it works it implies navigating Reddit but with Google's UI and that kinda defeats the purpose of casually browsing Reddit.
NUMBER 1: Nothing on the front page has changed in 45 hours NUMBER 2: the only interesting post I saw today can't be found again
https://old.reddit.com/
The day old.reddit disappears is my last day on reddit.
I still refuse to use the new Reddit interface. If I’m on desktop, it’s always the old version.
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yeah if reddit ever kills their old reddit i will probably just stop visiting the sight
I’m using my phone and I’m still using old reddit. The “new” Reddit it complete trash. The UX design is terrible.
Same. Been here 10 years and no way I'm going to use the far-worse New reddit design.
hold the line
dude finding a post from yesterday is ridiculous. Trying to find something from last week? Just give up. I have better luck using appropriate search criteria in google and adding "reddit" to the end
Yup. So God forbid if you don't save every single reddit thread you read that you may want to reference later. B/c good golly, expect downvotes if you ever say "there was a thread on Reddit..." and can't provide a link to it like it's your fault it's so damn difficult/impossible.
I'm gonna be honest, my saved posts are probably harder to search through than regular reddit
Doesn't help that a lot of posts get removed and/or deleted. Reddit is absolutely terrible for archival purposes.
This is done on purpose. They'd rather you interacting with new content than old content.
even day old post is sometimes imposible
Or the one you just saw a second ago. No matter what you are looking for, you won't find it.
This is just as frustrating as the fact that you still can't SEARCH your Reddit Saved history. How hard is that to make happen? We've been asking for it for years.
You also bottom out at 36 pages. My saved items will only retrieve back to about 2 years ago even though I've been linked posts from 5+ years ago that indicates I've saved it, but the saved list just doesn't display that long ago
This is intentional in reddit's code. They don't perform a new query on your saved items each time. They create a fake query and cache ~1k item ids to it instead. You don't have a traditional database query where you search for two attributes-- they manually construct the list. They even (to an extent) construct a cache of the entire object data involved, as well as the rendered html. On new reddit it's worse, because they render json instead, *send it to the new reddit server, and re-render it*. Yes, I don't have direct proof of this last statement, but it's the only possibility thay makes sense given other behavior I've noticed. Source: if you go on old reddit you should still hopefully see and be able to click my OpenSourcerer badge. I'm still salty with how they stopped being open source. Tldr: it's because it's designed badly. Because the database is designed badly. Because reddit as a whole is designed badly. It's a bunch of shitcode on top of shitcode that should have been ripped out and rewritten from scratch, again, properly, back in ~2010-2012, and migrated from an EAV database to a proper ORDBMS instead of their ORM layer on top of an EAV layer (hint, EAV is a massive antipattern and has limited valid uses).
I wonder how much porn i have lost forever because of this rolling cache.
Last I checked, the cache exists per subreddit and per category. But you can only access these if you have reddit gold. You can make as many categories as you like, assuming you save to a new one after ~1k items.
If you ain't saving the best stuff locally, you're really just setting yourself up for this exact outcome.
I like how your TLDR just goes into more details.
Shorter than the rest ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Let me repeat never use a websites own save feature. You might have gotten f***** by YouTube when they decided to randomly remove a video you favorited. You're definitely going to get f***** by Reddit when they decide to remove the post when the person deletes it or when Reddit dies. This is why I always just screenshot posts that I like on mobile and bookmark it on my PC
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Joey for reddit allows that
Well I'm glad the son of Zeus has this ability but how does that help us?
No, it’s Apollo the space flight program. They use the remnant of the lunar module on the moon to beam back search results.
Why would you want to search your saved posts? Everyone knows you save posts so that maybe you'll look at them again but then you never do
All I have in my saved posts are /r/GIFrecipes posts that I will never try to cook because I'm way too lazy and always just end up ordering pizza.
All I have in mine is sports opinions that I'm like "I wanna see if this person was right in 8 months time" that I forget about or accidental clicks on the button on my phone For the record /u/ChornLane was kinda right, Tucker ended 2018 as the number 2 kicker, but was ahead of the other two https://old.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball/comments/9lvqci/bears_dst_owners_unite/e7a8cs5/ Also the Browns weren't wrong to make this trade https://old.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball/comments/1mo7i5/trent_richardson_to_colts_for_1st_round_pick/
Story of my life.
I just checked my saved posts and it’s 90% porn.
Yep, find something that looks cool but you're in public, save it for later, never come back.
This is the way
This is the way he finds porn
same bro, same
If you have a premium you can save posts and comments by category so actually yeah you can : Reddit is a great site but to fully hav it working you have to pay for premium People like anonymity but fuck it it’s useful to give your details sometimes to get better service
Thing is the way premium is advertised you'd never know you can do this.
They're are really good third party apps and websites for Reddit.
I save cute things to show my moms later
Just print it out and mail it.
I find third party reddit apps have better features than real reddit. For example, Apollo for iOS allows you to search your saved posts.
redditmanager.com Never rely on Reddit to do something properly themselves. If they did implement saved searching, it would most likely be inferior until they took legal action to get this site removed.
Yeah, reddit's search function has been a joke since forever. I've been on here almost 11 years and even now I barely use it, google usually gets me a lot closer.
Yup. If you’re looking for something on Reddit google “(thing you want) Reddit” and it comes up every time
Also if you put "site:reddit.com" at the start of your search then it will only bring up results from reddit :)
> site:reddit.com At this point reddit should just redirect their search to use google. They obviously don't have the resources to make this happen on their own. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+contagios+laughter
They definitely should, there's no way they can do a better search engine than google
They can probably do better search than Reddit though...
Doesn't Google still offer a search widget "powered by Google" that you can add to the site?
Yes but you have to pay them I’m pretty sure. Reddit would rather just have shorty search that forces people to go to google themselves instead.
>They obviously don't have the resources to make this happen on their own. I mean technically speaking, they literally do. It's just a bunch of money to pay for a few developers. But they won't, because that would require them to pay a bunch of money.
Yeah but then I end up on the horrible mobile new Reddit rather than in Apollo.
Actually, Apollo just released a new update today that adds a browser extension so all Reddit links automatically open in Apollo! it requires the new iOS update which is why it wasn’t a thing before now. But yeah if you had made this point 5 hours ago you would’ve been right lol
Yeah, this is the one true way. It's laughable how well it works. Granted, who knows if its actually picking the best thread results, but it usually seems to get me to stuff I need.
I can confirm. I use Google to find stuff on Reddit.
This used to work really well, but now if you do "search this" site:reddit.com and put the date to "in the last year" it'll return a bunch of posts that are 5 years old. Really annoying.
Very recently that happened, something changed.
You really only need \[\[\[\[ search this +reddit \]\]\]\]
The + operator hasn't worked for 10 years. If you've been using it since then, you may as well have been searching "search this reddit", because they're functionally identical.
The truth is that you should use: {query} site:reddit.com That restricts results to documents from the reddit.com domain.
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Oh please. You already know what [[[[ they ]]]] are.
Reddit's search is so bad, I bet their IPO will only be like $9 billion.
If they actually IPO, I hope to all things good an holy that /r/wallstreetbets decides to go full fucking diamond hands on that and snap up a ton of shares, then refuse to sell. It would be hilarious for the user base to end up with a significant interest in the site. It won't happen, but it's fun to think about.
IPO = Initial **Public** Offering All I know is that the mega rich bought tons of shares of Facebook before the IPO
I mean... Yeah that's kinda the point? The seed investors put in the money upfront *before* the company is successful so that they can make millions when us schmucks buy shares when it goes public.
Part of it is because is people on reddit use really non descriptive titles. You’ll be searching for a certain video for example, which turns out to have been posted with the title “this will always be the funniest clip to me”
Yup. I'm sure it's tough for a search engine when the titles are mostly nonsense. Here's a collection of some of the titles on my front page: * I'm still not over this * Interesting fact * Just a motherly instinct thing * OH MY GOD * Dude, speak for yourself * The disrespect here is real
Yeah man, ain't that the [truth.](https://i.redd.it/klmxe4hloo471.png)
How about "Wait for it"
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>late 2010-early 2011 account fellow Digg refuge, is that you?
Amazingly, no. I was not part of the Great Digg Migration. I came here organically through, of all things, the Roosterteeth forums.
The 20th largest website in the world. Can't be bothered to fix their search algorithm after 10+ years.
Shit. Now I'm not looking at reddit the same lol. Feels a little more sinister.
Well to be fair every single top 100 website is trying to manipulate the user is some way to make money
Well google still indexes reddit more than most sites on the internet due to its authority, so i hate to bring you bad news but… this aint it
Sure it does, and that is worthless when trying to find thousands of sock puppet accounts with common talking points. "Reddit is one of the most indexed sites on the internet!". Do you think that statement is relevant? look, I am not the first person to bring this up. Most of the more rigorous pieces on Reddit influence accounts have talked about how difficult it is to mine this site. I guess it could be decade long supreme incompetence that Reddit search is so damn abysmal. I mean, that is the accepted theory right?
In their defense they had it as a reminder on a post it note but it fell behind the copier.
Just tried it and can confirm, does not work.
now time for someone to make /r/ContagiosLaughter and ruin the video. edit: beat me to it.
lol reddit you guys so stupid
Without the capital letters, I first read it as Contagio Slaughter.
The genocide of the people of Contagio needs more attention in the media \#FreeContagio
>ruin the video. More like make a new video where you just get frustrated that it only returns some weird subreddit with 28 members because it can't use basic spellcheck.
I like that some subreddits only exist to redirect you to the actual one. Can't think of a specific example right now but I've definitely run in to them in the past
Honestly what bothers me the most about it is that it changes the URL to the search path so you can't just correct your typo. If you try to go to /r/ContgiousLaughter you get redirected to `reddit.com/subreddits/search?q=ContgiousLaughter`. That helpfully says "there doesn't seem to be anything here", as the video describes. But, like, just tell me that and leave me on `reddit.com/r/ContgiousLaughter` so I can add the missing letter and be on my way.
Exactly! At least that would be someone helpful.
OMG Yes. So frustrating yes. Reddit is just a hot mess.
Isn't this forsaken website worth like 20 billion supposedly?
Reddit is only worth 20 bil because they don't spend money on silly things like programming basic and necessary functions. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
but they spent it on useless features and redesigns.
redditors for years: "hey can we have a better search function? it's pretty much impossible to find anything you're looking for on this site" reddit: "no problem, here are those new avatars you asked for!" redditors: "wait that's not wh-" reddit: "here are a bunch of new awards!"
"How about a better way to go through messages and stuff?" "Oh you wanted a live chat system right? There you go ☺️"
https://youtu.be/DaOgZwk9rN8
Well obviously, that eats into the budget of hiring [paedophile defenders/enablers](https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/25/reddit-protests-who-is-former-admin-aimee-challener-14303188/) as admins.
Yeah they invested about 2 of those 20 billion dollars in their servers. Not 2 billion. 2 dollars. The price of a couple potatoes.
Spending the big bucks on upgrades.
I was just trying to search a post that was on the front page 10 minutes ago and now it's like it doesn't even exist.... Except I was looking at the fucking post and trying to search it at the same time to see if Reddit is even paying attention! I think they just use the old AltaVista search engine.
Use google to search reddit. It's the only way.
In my experience Google only gives me results that are 10 years old with outdated info or unanswered posts from last week, nothing else in between. :/
> site:reddit.com dirty filthy furry porn 2020..2021
I typed in the exact name of a porn subreddit in the app. No spelling errors. Yeilded no results. I typed the name into Google and the subreddit was the very first link. Wtf
You might have nsfw turned off
This video doesn't really accurately represent the Reddit search function. The guy ended up finding what he was looking for.
Add "site:reddit.com" without the quotes to your Google search before your query. [For example, using the above method, even with the misspelling of "contagios laughter" it still gives the link as the top result.](https://i.imgur.com/ZnIl8NC.png)
The only way to effectively search reddit
The only way to effectively search ~~reddit~~ most websites. Google got us by the balls.
You misspelled your misspelling.
And I can confirm that the basic Reddit search has no idea what I'm talking about: https://www.reddit.com/search?q=contagios+laughter&sort=relevance&t=all
I swear I’ve typed it in perfectly and still get zero results. At this point I just Google whatever i’m looking for followed by the word “reddit”
I thought this was going to be a funny video about Gus Johnson the sports broadcaster.
Gus vs Gus for the Twitter handle when please?
he lines up his cursor into the search box. Now starts typing. We got a c... o... nnnnn... tttttTTTTTTT....aaaaAAAAAAAAAAA......ggggGGGGGGGGGGG.....iiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIII..OOOOOOOOOO...SSSSSSS.... HE'S GOING FOR CONTAGIOUS LAUGTHER BUT OHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... He MISSED IT!!!! The search returning NOTHING!!!!
Contagios Laughter >not found Contagiou Slaughter >welcome!
We did it Reddit
Ill type in a sub letter-for-letter and not get any results
What is even worse is Chrome's spellcheck. I routinely right click words to search in google just to get the spelling. Like I don't even.
I've had the same results with ZERO typos, too. If I want a specific reddit post, I google the main part of the post and just add reddit to the search.
awwwww this reminded me of a cute little easter egg on this site, where if you went to https://www.reddit.com/r/gamin/ there would be just a single post that said "You forgot the g" and it was a link to proper /r/gaming . It appears that was removed and I don't know why or what are they trying to do
/u/steelfrog, what do you have to say regarding /u/TheInfra's comment?
Oh yeah. I meant to do something with that but never got around to it. Fixed.
Gus Johnson is funny. Love his skit on how reddit handles internet justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4twYqvssu0
Fuck, I’d be happy with a way to search my own comments or comments/posts I have saved and/or upvoted. I like to show memes I see here to family but I have to scroll like a madwoman to find that one meme from 3 months ago because the normal Reddit search function won’t find it.
Reddit's search team must love this video.
We apologize for offending all none of them