Reddit Adding Ability To Let Users Search Comments Within Post

Social discussion forum Reddit has announced that users can now search comments within a post on desktop, iOS and Android.

Reddit is now implementing this new change in response to user feedback.

Social discussion forum Reddit has announced that users can now search comments within a post on desktop, iOS and Android. Last year, the company added the ability to search comments across the platform with the addition of a "comments" tab in the search bar, but users were not able to search comments within a post.

Reddit is now implementing this new change in response to user feedback. With this update, users will not need to "cmd-f" on the post page anymore, as they can now search comment threads without expanding them.

In addition, users will be able to access the parts of the conversation they are looking for and jump to where they want without long-scrolling sessions, said the company. Moreover, the online discussion forum said that it has made several improvements to its search functionality over the past few months.

In October last year, Reddit introduced the text search within images, meaning users can search for their favourite memes that have text in them. Further, the company improved the subreddit search algorithm to deliver a larger number of relevant subreddits for most searches.

It has also made improvements to autocomplete to make it easier to search for communities without having to type in the exact right name in the exact right order to find relevant results.

The company has also made it easier to browse through video search results.

When users tap into a video search result, they can now easily swipe up and down to go between video results on Reddit's mobile apps, the company mentioned.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, Reddit confirmed it was hacked by threat actors that gained access to its internal documents and source code that was a result of a “highly-targeted” phishing attack. According to Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe's post, the company became aware of the “sophisticated” attack targeting Reddit employees on February 5.

The company employees had been receiving "plausible-sounding prompts," which lead to a website that mimic the looks and behaviour of its intranet gateway, designed as such to steal people's logins and second-factor tokens, a report said. A Reddit staffer did fall for the scheme, but they had self-reported.