Reddit has launch a new feature that gives users the ability to search comments, with a few other search-related features. This new feature helps users in searching for comments directly via a new ‘comments’ tab in the search bar, rather than having to click on several comments to find threads while looking for a particular conversation.
As per Reddit’s surveys conduct in 2021, the ‘comment search’ feature was one of the top request ones.
Testing the new feature, more than 26,000 people use the new feature to scan through more than five billion comments.
Reddit Said in a blog post :
“With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable – users, posts, communities, and now comments – making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability,”.
Reddit says it has also improve search relevance on the platform.
As user’s query had to exactly match the results, but now it’s less restrictive, and 100% of a query doesn’t need to match the text to return relevant results. In tests, Reddit says its changes led to a 60% increase in results.
Reddit Said :
“If someone wants to find a thread about the best locations in London, previously they would have to look through each post in the r/London community, browsing the comments to find it. Now, they can easily see all the different recommendations on the best places for high tea that people have shared in comments,”.
The ‘comment search’ feature can be access by going to the home feed, clicking within the search bar, and conducting a search.
