Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended (opens in new tab)

Should work for any Chromium-based browser, such as Edge, Vivaldi or Opera.

One of the few good things that comes from homogenizing browsers under one engine: they all pretty much work the same.

On iOS I use Settings –> General –> Keyboards –> Text Replacement to define a replacement “sr” –> “site:reddit.com”. There’s probably some equivalent on Android.

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Such shortcuts (aka Site Search in Chrome) are a longstanding feature in Chrome, and it's unclear why you might need or want to do with a browser plugin instead.

Take the commentary on Reddit with a grain of skepticism and an understanding that people are speaking from a personal point of view, not an expert point of view. I treat the information I find via Reddit as a strong data point, but not the end of the search.

Can also search like this:

   pancakes site:reddit.com intitle:"/r/memes"

Will show results for pancakes from Reddit, from the memes subreddit.

> Alas in what I've used it, it won't work with subreddits (like doing "pancakes site:reddit.com/r/pancakes")

I use that quite often to restrict to a subreddit and it works well in my experience.

For more complex queries, you can use https://github.com/pushshift/api.

Oh it's not something new, many larger subreddits require year+ old accounts, so farms have people create accounts for years now, get a little karma, let it sit for awhile then resell it.

Next presidential campaign is going to be brutal to reddit spam/noise filters, I hope they are ready somehow.

Do you have any examples of what this looks like?

Doesn't matter, you just have to be one step ahead. There will surely be something else next and as long as average people haven't caught up to the "new method", it will work. Life is a constant test of whether you are able to swim at the front.

reddit's whole infrastructure is straight out of a case study

It's not a belief, it's outcome oriented. I have had more luck troubleshooting a niche issue or finding common viewpoints (negative ones being the most important) on products and problems I am trying to solve via Reddit than the autogen listicles and vaguely related quora posts that make up the vast majority of Google's first 10 page results.

All the signals I am picking up on/using to differentiate a real or usable comment (sometimes paid ones can still be useful!) can of course be gamed the same way Google search or Amazon product reviews can. Reddit can also still be botted.

But in practice I am currently finding more success at home with information sourced from Reddit. That will no doubt change eventually, but right now, it is indeed better for me.

I hint at it above, but we all use Google for different things - buying things, finding things, getting information on a variety of topics. If I'm trying to do something like solve a technical or software issue, it actually doesn't matter if the result is gamed or not - what matters is if I solve the issue. Stackoverflow, Reddit and wikipedia results easily help me reach that end far more often than Google does, especially when Google doesn't seem to often surface the more obscure hobby forums that might have niche information.

Honestly reddit is pretty bad, much of it feels like an echo chamber/shilling, but when it comes to things not focused on consuming product(e.g. linux) it's pretty helpful and has gotten me out of jams more than I'd care to admit. I think the reason the information is higher quality in those spheres is because there's no incentive to push something. You don't see people pushing a product on you to rip a cd, they just tell you the DD command(results may vary for macos and windows users), wheras in product oriented subreddits I see things being pushed all the time that at second glance are either crap or expensive. Similarly, these SEO sites are simply scraping documentation from oracle, and answers from stack overflow and slapping ads on them to make money. I reckon if reddit users got paid to post we'd see a whole lot more botting.

Because it's not easy to monetize a Reddit post. If you attract people to click on your garbage article, you can display ads and extract value. Meanwhile if you post the same bullshit on Reddit, you get nothing.

This is not to say that there are no bots, paid shills and other issues on Reddit, but it is definitely a good filter. It's the same with Stackoverflow vs most coding sites that just rip them off.

Because humans wrote it, and there is an upvote system. Human content > ML content. Are you saying that HN is also not better than ML clickbait content? I doubt it.

The fact that this is the second reddit append tool mentioned on HN within a week means there is obviously something you are not considering.

With you on this. It depends hugely on which subreddit and the subreddit approach to moderation but on average I would say reddit is reflective of (and in many cases worse than) the general level of quality of the www as a whole.

Reddit is big on cargo-cult troubleshooting, you can't show them a TCP windowing problem or path MTU detection failure without "try changing your DNS servers" or "disable auto-negotiate on your Ethernet port" getting a hundred upvotes.

Not sure I'll get around to it but I have the source here if you want to give it a shot: https://github.com/built-by-as/RedditSearchHelper

> not improved privacy

gl