After 17 years, Reddit is finally making searchable comments, he said. Users can now get search results from answers to posts, not just original posts and topics within the community. “Previously [you] will have to review every post in the r / London community, reviewing the comments to find it, “the product and design team wrote.” Now, [you] you can easily see all the different recommendations for the best tea places that people have shared in the comments. “
Comments on Reddit can finally be found
The ability to search for comments was the biggest feature request from a survey conducted by Reddit last year. On top of that, during Reddit’s “limited initial testing,” about 26,000 people used the feature to scan more than five billion comments.
Reddit has also improved search relevancy to help users find results. Previously, the result had to match almost exactly the query, but now it is less restrictive. “For example, let’s say someone is looking for ‘dogecoin stonks 2021′ and can’t find what they’re looking for because there’s no exact match; with our new treatment you are more likely to get related results. “In fact, Reddit said it had seen a 60% increase in results for queries that hadn’t received results before. Search is now prioritizing newer content, looking at users’ search history to prioritize results.
Finally, Reddit has improved its search interface with a new, simpler design based on user feedback. It now prioritizes posts over other types of content and simplifies the results page so you can find what you’re looking for more easily. It also reduces the number of unexpected results based on the intention to “make search safer,” it said. The new features are now available worldwide on the desktop website, but there is no information when they will come in the applications.
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