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Show HN: Redditle.com - For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every
Google search
Author : greentfrapp
Score : 280 points
Date : 2022-04-07 16:33 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| TimLeland wrote:
| Funny I built the same thing a couple weeks ago:
|
| https://gooreddit.com/
| greentfrapp wrote:
| Oh nice high five! Plus that's the smart way to do it like
| oh_sigh mentioned in their comment too
| TimLeland wrote:
| Haha thanks! I took the simple route that saves a few
| keystrokes.
| ComradePhil wrote:
| This needs an "amp" feature so you never have to go to the reddit
| website/app.
| greentfrapp wrote:
| Hold on what's that? It sounds really cool but I've never heard
| of it.
| jkingsman wrote:
| AMP[1] is a (somewhat maligned) Google 'standard' which
| encourages a 'thin' version of sites with minimal assets and
| fast load times so that Google can display them in a sort of
| iframe-like context without the user actually having to leave
| the Google site (part of why it's maligned). Most site's AMP
| versions are lightweight and bypass any login/paywall because
| they want Google to show the rich results of this page. I'm
| guessing this person is interested in you using the AMP
| versions of Reddit which may be lighter, zippier, and not
| require login. I'm not sure if it's possible for a third
| party to display an AMP page the way Google does, though --
| maybe -\\_(tsu)_/-
|
| [1]: https://developers.google.com/amp
| greentfrapp wrote:
| Ahhh interesting - thanks so much for the explanation!
| PUSH_AX wrote:
| The amp version of reddit is horrific.
| tomatowurst wrote:
| neat idea but appending reddit at end of a search in address bar
| isn't exactly a huge deal enough for me to use an entire search
| engine altogether
| throwitawayfam wrote:
| The killer feature for me would be time filter. Google doesn't
| work because the dates listed on the results never match the date
| of the original post. For example, something posted 7 years ago
| will be marked as posted recently on Google. I assume this is
| some SEO bullshit that Reddit is pulling.
|
| I've posted about this a lot as I use site:reddit.com
| extensively.
| [deleted]
| oars wrote:
| This is the only reason I sometimes use Reddit's search over
| Google.
|
| If this problem was solved then it's game over.
| weare138 wrote:
| >For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as
| posted recently on Google.
|
| I've noticed this too. I think Google Search is updating the
| page's timestamp in the search cache every time anything
| changes on the page itself. So if the sub's admins change any
| content that displays on every page in the sub, like the
| rules/guidelines section or stickies a post for example, Google
| Search is considering it a page update even if the post itself
| is old.
| jfengel wrote:
| I don't use Reddit, and haven't found it terribly interesting.
| Why would somebody want to use it as a primary source of truth?
|
| Wikipedia? Sure. StackOverflow? Sometimes.
|
| I occasionally prefer Quora links, only because I'm active there
| and there's a chance I'll know the person (and thus have some
| faith in their answer). Is it something like that?
|
| What is it about Reddit that I'm missing?
| xboxnolifes wrote:
| > Why would somebody want to use it as a primary source of
| truth?
|
| Not everything is about truth or untruth. Some things are
| opinions, and some opinions are worse than others. Some are
| just spam.
|
| Search engines have been absolutely destroyed by blog spam.
| Look up info on new hardware? Dozens of amazon referral blog
| spam. Look up information about hobbies? Dozens of blog spam
| trying to either sell you something or get ad revenue. Look up
| an obscure thought about something civil in nature? A mix
| between thousand page government docs that I don't know how to
| navigate, a few dozen irrelevant "news" articles, and more blog
| spam.
|
| At least with reddit I can usually find something that is not
| blog spam, and I'm generally familiar with the biases of
| various subs. It's far from perfect, but I don't know anything
| better in the general case.
| casperc wrote:
| For me it is good to find an honest discussion of a thing (e.g.
| tool, tv series) rather than whatever paid-for article or
| review which would otherwise appear first.
| Zebfross wrote:
| It can be the most reliable place to find a group of real
| people all knowledgeable about the same thing. So things like
| "best weekend itinerary in x city".
| Sherl wrote:
| Straight up Google results are too manipulated by machine
| generated blogs for SEO. Google "best x" you would end up in a
| blog post made of Amazon affiliate links. Same goes for product
| reviews, it's impossible to find blogs that cover reviews on
| everyday products barring a few. Reddit has become a gold mine
| for some when it comes to product reviews and research. "Give a
| man a mask, he will tell you the truth" - with quora your
| identity being associated some hesitate on stark opinions but
| with reddit, you can do whatever you want to say and the
| community takes care of it with upvotes and karma.
|
| Recently there has been an influx of paid reviews and opinions
| everywhere, yt comments, Amazon reviews and even reddit
| comments. So take everything with a truckload of salt but given
| the limited content I have to source, reddit is as good as it
| gets. Someone should build yt comments extractor and search on
| top of that.
| gundamdoubleO wrote:
| I use it to get a more informed idea of products I'm thinking
| about buying. For example if I'm looking up a specific pair of
| headphones I'll usually read around on there to see what people
| think of them.
| batrat wrote:
| This. Yesterday I was looking for a pc case and google showed
| only irrelevant results for x vs y. Typing reddit, bam
| instant discussions about the topic even with more useful
| information.
|
| Op thx for the tool it is on my homepage now.
| rabuse wrote:
| I use it all the time for discovering new movies and similar
| movies to those I like
| Slix wrote:
| If I search for a Windows problem on Google, I'll get tons of
| long generic content that contains very basic advice and lots
| of steps. They look like hastily-written tech sites with lots
| of ads that try to win with SEO.
|
| If I search with `site:reddit.com`, I get actual users
| discussing their problem and what solutions they've tried.
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| This, but for so much more than just tech. For example try to
| find a discussion of Trader Joes vs Whole Foods.
| cush wrote:
| For now, it provides the most honest feedback with less spam.
| For now.
| HellsMaddy wrote:
| It's a result of the avalanche of SEO crap results that you
| normally get in Google searches. Wikipedia and StackOverflow
| are good too, but don't always have the information you're
| looking for. My top 4 resources are GitHub, Wikipedia, Reddit,
| and StackOverflow.
|
| Reddit is a catch-all for communities nowadays, where you can
| generally find authentic questions and answers to most common
| problems and discussions about most common topics.
|
| Personally I trust (some parts of) Reddit far more than Quora,
| where the content seems to be largely SEO/marketing crap and
| not authentic.
|
| Reddit does have the same SEO/marketing crap content, to be
| sure, but it has a lot of authentic content too, and I find
| it's generally easy to tell what is what.
|
| I guess for me it boils down to authenticity being more
| important than authority or expertise, because one of the
| largest problems with the web today is inauthentic content,
| content where the author has an ulterior motive.
| parentheses wrote:
| It would be nice if this supported <insert search engine> AND the
| ability to choose.
| abdussamit wrote:
| Internal Server Error!
| simlevesque wrote:
| I've noticed an increased amount of search hijacking related to
| "reddit" these days. The results are flooded with results such as
| these when I search for "axiom trekk reddit":
|
| - https://redditfavorites.com/products/axiom-trekk-seat-collar...
|
| - https://redditbests.com/reviews/axiom-gear-trekk-rack/
|
| - https://www.petagadget.com/a/axiom-trekk-seat-clamp-collar-f...
|
| Your website should help me with that !
| arsome wrote:
| If you're using it for product research, probably not the best
| idea - I'm betting that people who append site:reddit.com to
| their queries are not the only ones who've noticed it being a
| better place to find information sometimes... marketers will,
| if not, already have, heavily infiltrated popular subreddits,
| especially to manufacture consensus on good products.
| silicon2401 wrote:
| that's easily fixed by googling "blah blah site:reddit.com"
|
| The real problem is how to get better results now that reddit's
| site has changed. I often see posts from even 10 years show as
| having activity from within a few years or even days on google.
| The reddit redesign has been a horrible detriment to the
| website
| jawmes9 wrote:
| Most searches I do now are search + {nameOfForum}
|
| Especially looking into new libraries or programming languages, I
| always append "hackernews" to my search
| Bo0kerDeWitt wrote:
| Hmm, if I search "nordic curls" I get "No results found". If I
| Google "nordic curls reddit" the first hit is an incredibly
| useful reddit post.
|
| Edit: That's weird, it seems to be working now.
| greentfrapp wrote:
| oof could you try that again? I just increased the capacity of
| the lambda - it was previously timing out from too many
| requests.
| Bo0kerDeWitt wrote:
| Yup, working! Looks cool.
| greentfrapp wrote:
| Thanks! Also, just wanted to say I love Bioshock Infinite
| too. But more the Lutece twins than DeWitt
| trinovantes wrote:
| Protip for Firefox users: you can create your own custom search
| engines for any website by simply creating a new bookmark of the
| form "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com" and set
| the bookmark keyword to whatever prefix you prefer e.g. "r". This
| config will let me search reddit by typing "r vuejs" my Firefox's
| address bar
| layer8 wrote:
| On mobile I use global (OS-level) text abbreviations to auto-
| convert "sr" to "site:reddit.com".
| joshuamarksmith wrote:
| Works in Chrome too.
|
| I use the shortcut "rs" for
| https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com for
| searching reddit, and the shortcut "r" to go directly to the
| subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/%s
| ayush000 wrote:
| How exactly did you do that?
| prepostertron wrote:
| Should be under Chrome Settings -> Search engine -> Manage
| search engines and site search -> Site search.
|
| You can add your custom search with the %s placeholder, a
| shortcut to use in the address bar, and name.
| halfjoking wrote:
| Also available in Edge. I had to add Brave Search
| manually to set it as the default search.
| greentfrapp wrote:
| TIL! +100
| 3OCSzk wrote:
| Adding to the protip: there is https://mycroftproject.com that
| is full of premade custom search engines to save you the hassle
| of making them manually
| jackallis wrote:
| can you expand that further how to for the non-initiated.
| trinovantes wrote:
| I posted some screenshots on my website
| https://www.stephenli.ca/blocking-spam-websites-from-
| google-...
|
| Basically Firefox substitutes the text of your query into the
| %s part of the bookmark URL
| Beta-7 wrote:
| This is amazing. I've been using DDG mostly for the bangs and
| really wished there was a way to add custom bangs (I suggested
| them to DDG, but never got a response). This is just what i
| needed.
| kzrdude wrote:
| Great that you got to know it. "Mozilla keywords" is an age-
| old feature, probably from before firefox existed.
| modernerd wrote:
| You can submit your own for consideration if you have a
| custom one in mind that might be helpful to others:
|
| https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
| Beta-7 wrote:
| That's what i meant by suggesting a bang. The bang was the
| equivalent of `!dictionary`, but in my native language. I
| guess not enough people here use DDG for it to be
| considered.
| phrz wrote:
| xSearch for Safari is great for this on Mac and iOS. I've made
| a bunch of custom !bang search engines on top of those
| supported by DuckDuckGo. It really speeds up research on
| various databases.
| cwillu wrote:
| You can do the same on chrome: right click on the url bar -
| manage search engines - set a keyword to the prefix you prefer
| and the url with %s for the search term in the same way.
| [deleted]
| layer8 wrote:
| This isn't really relevant anymore, but even Internet Explorer
| had that feature ("SearchUrl") since IE3 in 1996. While not
| well-known, it's a must-have browser feature IMO.
| sedatk wrote:
| Doesn't work with Edge :(
| sccxy wrote:
| Settings - "Manage search engines" - Add new one
|
| Works very well with any site.
| sedatk wrote:
| Awesome, I didn't know search engine settings had "keyword"
| feature. Thanks!
| nvrspyx wrote:
| For DuckDuckGo users, you can just use a !bang. !r for
| searching on Reddit directly, !sr to go to a specific
| subreddit, !searchr for searching Reddit through DDG, and
| !greddit for searching Reddit through Google.
|
| To see other Reddit options, !bangs Reddit.
|
| https://duckduckgo.com/bang
| InCityDreams wrote:
| https://duckduckgo.com/?kl=wt-
| wt&kp=-2&kn=1&kaj=m&kay=b&kv=m...
|
| ...my default/ basic DDG search. I ublock all the graphics
| and stuff, too.
| xigoi wrote:
| What do the parameters do?
| NAHWheatCracker wrote:
| It's too bad they have !r go the the Reddit search page,
| which is famously bad.
|
| I didn't know about !searchr, wish it was shorter. At least
| it's better than what I've been doing which is typing out
| site:reddit.com.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| From further down this post, !ddgr works too.
| holoduke wrote:
| I add 'forum' to my question. I don't think Reddit is a good site
| to answer my questions. Lot more specialized forums with more in
| depth info. The only topic I use reddit for is politics.
| Pxtl wrote:
| At this point the granularity of subreddits often make Reddit
| the main forum of note on many subjects.
| TruthWillHurt wrote:
| I don't add "reddit" because Reddit discussions are good,
|
| I add it because Google results are shit.
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| Killer feature for me would be to kill the use app nag on mobile.
| seabrookmx wrote:
| You can do this in the settings. Top right hamburger menu >
| Settings > Uncheck "Ask to open in app."
|
| I stumbled upon this when looking for the dark mode toggle and
| was very happy.
| ehsankia wrote:
| Here I thought it was another Wordle game, not a good time to
| name your product <name>le
| cwillu wrote:
| "Introducing the newest wordle clone: google! Try to guess the
| correct search terms to find your target in under 5 searches!"
| yalogin wrote:
| Nice! In many instances for me searching through subreddits is
| the only way to go. Did not realize a lot of us do it. Not sure
| it warrants a new domain though.
| abhinavsharma wrote:
| I built a desktop browser extension version (100% open source and
| GPL licensed) of this basic idea or side searching filtered to
| some sites only. It also just uses your browser's default search
| engine (so you can stick to DuckDuckGo for example). Usually I
| don't like to plug on HN but thought this is uniquely relevant.
|
| It shows reddit (also HN, and others when relevant) filtered
| results in a sidebar for Google queries. It's auto expanded when
| there's a non-navigational query with no onebox (this is a
| increasingly becoming a good indicator of when Google is lacking
| decisiveness in a query).
|
| Example: https://share.getcloudapp.com/QwuLL0NW For Chrome or
| Edge:
| http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojage...
| For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/hypersearch-d... Source:
| https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch
|
| Feedback or change requests are appreciated via Github!
| abhinavsharma wrote:
| adding a direct link to the screenshot since it hit the limit
| https://p42.f3.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/QwuLL0NW/aa3989b...
| ARandomerDude wrote:
| I get a blank screen with a 500 and some JS errors every time.
| POST https://4781toi2w8.execute-api.us-
| east-1.amazonaws.com/default/redditle-search 500
| Error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading
| 'match') at index.0dca874d.js:5:25633
| TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')
| at Proxy.Yu (index.0dca874d.js:5:28261)
| greentfrapp wrote:
| Oh no I think my lambda is dying - I didn't expect this to blow
| up LOL let me fix that!
| runjake wrote:
| Alternatively, just add keyword searches to your browser.
|
| Here's how to do it with Firefox: https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb
|
| In Chrome, you do pretty much the same in Settings->Search
| Engine->Manage Search Engines->Add
|
| You'll want to use something like this, to taste:
| https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com
|
| I have these set up for all kinds of sites, and they're
| accessible straight from my local machines (because: sync)
|
| More help for Google search operators:
| https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
| kyleee wrote:
| or directly to your operating system if using KDE
| martini333 wrote:
| imagine
| epa wrote:
| Google's search result quality has been abysmal for years now,
| cheers for this.
| oraoraoraoraora wrote:
| Reddle ftfy
| propter_hoc wrote:
| Google used to have a feature called Discussions Search that
| would search forums for results. That allowed you to get
| discussion results from any forum. Since Google killed it, it's
| impossible to get discussion results unless you focus on Reddit.
|
| I wonder how much this has contributed to Reddit crowding out
| other discussion forums.
| ConSeannery wrote:
| I tend to append or prepend site:forum.* to my searches to
| emulate this missing feature. Not every forum is set up with
| this url but it's better than nothing
| greentfrapp wrote:
| Thanks everyone for the HN hug of death on this little side
| project of mine! It's been crazyyyy. And if it's okay I also just
| wanted to give a small shout out to my other project at
| https://catche.co - we've got about 30 people on that waitlist,
| check it out!
| user- wrote:
| I think you might want to make the 'Learn More' stand out
| against the white background. I didn't see it at all and almost
| closed the tab until I noticed it.
| nofinator wrote:
| FYI, there are some DuckDuckGo bangs (shortcuts) for this too.
| For example, if you wanted to search for Hacker News, try:
| !searchr Hacker News OR !ddgr Hacker News
| ipunchghosts wrote:
| I have been doing this for months. Didnt know other people did
| this!
| lettergram wrote:
| Funny I used to have something called redditprofile.com that did
| something similar. Let you view trends as well, etc.
|
| It's now called insideropinion.com sell to companies.
|
| I think there's a lot of interesting stuff to get out of Reddit.
| leeoniya wrote:
| please add option to use the old.reddit.com domain. the new
| Reddit frontend is an unmitigated disaster.
| notsahil wrote:
| You can use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... or
| https://libredirect.github.io if you want Libreddit
| nicklaf wrote:
| And in general: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/redirector/
|
| My rule for reddit: reddit: www -> old
| Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/* to:
| https://old.reddit.com/$1
| unpixer wrote:
| +1 for Redirector.
|
| Also useful, for example, if you want to be the one in
| charge of whether your browser uses the desktop version of
| Wikipedia rather than the mobile one:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org -> https://en.wikipedia.org
| Redirect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org(\/.\\*)? to:
| https://en.wikipedia.org$1
| greatpostman wrote:
| Years after using the new UI, I still think this.
| varenc wrote:
| If you have a Reddit account no extensions are needed to fix
| this.
|
| Just go to your Reddit account settings[0] and click "Opt out
| of the redesign" at the bottom. (Or on old Reddit you uncheck
| "Use new Reddit as my default experience"). Once you do this
| you'll now see old Reddit on www.reddit.com.
|
| [0] https://www.reddit.com/settings
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| I have done this, yet your link takes me to the new reddit.
| It's incredibly annoying.
| zerocrates wrote:
| I will note that this setting occasionally "unsticks" and you
| start getting the new one again... I assume that's a
| purposeful "feature" to see if they can cleave off some
| people who now tolerate it or don't notice.
| zamadatix wrote:
| The best thing about this is other people don't need
| "old.reddit.com" to "new.reddit.com" redirector extensions.
| Reddit assumes if you put "old." or "new." then you
| explicitly want to override your account's preferences.
| Kiro wrote:
| What's wrong with new reddit? old.reddit is practically
| unusable on mobile devices. i.reddit is better but I still
| prefer new reddit.
| zerocrates wrote:
| Mostly my problem with it is that it's buggy: frequently
| clicking a thread or comment chain doesn't actually load, but
| scrolls the screen as if it did, and other similar
| annoyances.
|
| On mobile particularly if logged out (or _particularly_
| particularly if in a private browsing mode) it 's quite
| aggressive about trying to push you to the app, or letting
| you view only a couple comments in a thread before saying
| you're not allowed to see more, or not letting you view some
| subs at all. "Old" reddit doesn't do any of this.
| easrng wrote:
| New reddit is also a shitshow on mobile. Load the page (which
| takes a while) dismiss the prompt to get the app, continue
| browsing, click Load More in comments, try to dismiss the
| login prompt, fail, give up and leave. On desktop new reddit
| scrolls all the way to the top when you Ctrl+click links in
| comment threads, it's a mess. I usually use libreddit.
| supperrtadderr wrote:
| Since 2013 or so, the mobile experience and then the new
| refresh is so bad.
| tmpz22 wrote:
| On new Reddit I get infinite loading on mobile, which forces me
| to type in old.
|
| It's frustrating that there are clear regressions on mobile
| even for a mobile centric overhaul.
| imglorp wrote:
| You might also like https://i.reddit.com/ for pure, fast,
| HTML experience. Until they yank it. Sshh!
| jmckib wrote:
| Don't even bother with reddit on mobile; you really need an
| app. I've been through a lot of reddit apps and Boost is the
| best IMO. Everything just works, and useful gestures that I
| _usually_ don 't trigger by accident.
| squeaky-clean wrote:
| On some posts on mobile I get an overlay telling me to either
| create an account, or view r/popular, with no choice to view
| the post I found via search. If you do sign in you get 2,
| sometimes 3 consecutive popups to use their app. They
| definitely don't care about the mobile web experience except
| as a means to market their app
| nfadili wrote:
| This is a fun idea, and works exactly as described! I really like
| how the styling feels like google search too.
| mattwad wrote:
| I notice not all results have a date. That is extremely important
| when looking at Reddit posts, and one of the main issues with
| Google because old posts will show up as new.
| yewenjie wrote:
| I just use a custom regex with the Redirector extension for
| searching in any subreddit.
|
| https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
| mfrye0 wrote:
| Seems that you're getting the HN hug of death right now. The site
| is unusable.
| notsahil wrote:
| I get blank page with https://redditle.com/search?q=linux
| slig wrote:
| Congrats! Hope to try it as soon as it comes back.
|
| Also, I'm pretty surprised that Google doesn't block AWS from
| doing automated queries.
| paulpauper wrote:
| The problem, is that Google often serves up old reddit threads as
| new due to some bug in "search by date" feature. You end up with
| 10-year-old reddit threads showing up having a date from 7 days
| ago.
| ehPReth wrote:
| Is it a bug with Google or is it Reddit trying to growth hack
| again? They have been shady especially with mobile
| k8sToGo wrote:
| It says it is overwhelmed for me.
| ehsankia wrote:
| HN hug of death.
| tetraca wrote:
| So, how long until marketers also completely ruin this avenue to
| get real opinions about things?
| sebmellen wrote:
| We can't let them discover it.
| bee_rider wrote:
| Well, there are definitely shill accounts on reddit, but not
| enough to ruin the site. And the whole point of the site is to
| argue with people, so I guess it should be possible to, at
| least sometimes, tell if something is up.
|
| Based on
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30946792#30948119
|
| I guess some folks are working on ruining the idea of
| specifically searching for Reddit, but their efforts are pretty
| transparent at this point.
| zander312 wrote:
| hug of death for me
| cush wrote:
| Are we using the "le" suffix for non-Wordle apps now? Reminds me
| of the "ly" suffix from the early 2010s. Hey, it certainly worked
| out for Musical.ly
| FalcorTheDog wrote:
| I suspect you're overthinking it. I'm pretty sure he just took
| the "le" from Google (Reddit + Google = Redditle).
| oh_sigh wrote:
| Assuming this is just for fun and not an attempt at an actual
| business, why not just forward the user to
| www.google.com/search?q=my_query after appending
| "+site:Reddit.com" or whatever? This could be done with a
| statically served 1kb HTML file with no server otherwise required
| to handle requests.
| greentfrapp wrote:
| Ahh this is actually a really really good point - I just pulled
| this out of my butt today as a fun coding project haha but what
| you described would be a much smarter way to do it. Less fun
| though! Oh well I'll just leave this up, I'm guessing the
| traffic will probably die down after awhile.
| [deleted]
| vmoore wrote:
| Hackernews' Algolia search function is also a wealth of
| information. Basically any useful site (& comment) you can
| imagine is stored there, if you care to look. It's almost too
| good to be true, but you have to be in a serendipitous mindset to
| dive into certain topics, and also have something precious to us
| all: time. There's rabbit-holes on certain topics where I
| genuinely don't have the time to delve any further.
|
| Like lately I wanted to learn about Go and was just floored at
| how much documentation and snippets of code I could use in my
| first project, so I just gave up. There are things I _want_ to
| learn, but don 't have the dedication & discipline to set aside 5
| hours to make those initial first steps.
|
| This is why I double down on topics I am _currently_ proficient
| at, and when I find something that can go exponential the more
| time I spend on it, the better it is for me. Build on strength.
| Lamad123 wrote:
| Going with some kind of browser extension would've been better!!
| jarrenae wrote:
| Looks great! sorry to see that the API isn't quite working with
| all the traffic though.
|
| I actually build the same thing a few weeks back:
| https://searchbettr.com but it redirects instantly to a Google
| search so you don't have to deal with the API.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Feature request: subreddit autocomplete at the beginning of a
| query.
| guanzo wrote:
| Hah, you got me. Reddit content is efficient to browse (old
| reddit UI), has multiple POVs, and upvotes is a decent heuristic
| for determining answer quality.
|
| Random websites on the other hand... If i'm looking for a recipe,
| why do I have to read several paragraphs about what you did last
| Tuesday? Anecdotal preambles are the worst.
| amar-laksh wrote:
| Obligatory Reddit scroller comment: https://scrolller.com/ (The
| best photo aggregator for reddit)
| k8sToGo wrote:
| Addicting infinite scrolling ahead. Trying to avoid these
| things. But I like the UX
| neurotrace wrote:
| I've gotten so used to seeing variants of Wordle that I read
| "Redditle" and immediately thought it was some sort of Reddit-
| based Wordle
| greentfrapp wrote:
| Yeah I know! I wanted to go for geddit.com which would have
| been perfect but it was taken.
| copperx wrote:
| I thought it was a product by Readdle, which coincidentally has
| similar branding colors.
| greentfrapp wrote:
| Hi HN! I built redditle.com for those of us who append "reddit"
| to our Google searches.
|
| Reddit search isn't great (https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuest
| ions/comments/lucx82/w...). But it's improving!
| (https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/t9nuaz/whats_up_wit...)
|
| In the meantime, some of us still use Google to search Reddit,
| hence https://redditle.com
|
| Or for some of us, because Google's results are increasingly
| filled with clickbait, "reddit" has been a cheatcode to navigate
| that. Redditle is for you too!
|
| Is it the same as Googling "site:reddit.com"? Yes :D
|
| Redditle also supports searching in a specific subreddit with
| "r/<subreddit>" e.g. "r/webdev guide to vue" would search in
| r/webdev.
|
| GitHub repo - https://github.com/greentfrapp/redditle
| lucasyvas wrote:
| Just want to say that I love this - I'm the exact target for
| it! I had considered doing something similar as a TUI, but my
| lazy ass never got around to it :)
| plq wrote:
| This looks nice, congrats on shipping :)
|
| Did you know that "Redditle" literally means either "with
| Reddit" or "Reddit it" in Turkish depending on context and is
| actually the perfect Turkish name for a service that does
| something using Reddit?
|
| As a similar example, Turkish for "Google it" is "Google'la".
| To google is "Google'lamak".
|
| PS: The suffixes le/la are the same, vowels in suffixes
| generally adapt to the word that the get attached to due to
| vowel harmony.
| Lammy wrote:
| My first assumption was that it's a reference to the
| obsession with "le" in rage comics on Reddit like a decade
| ago: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/le
| tempestn wrote:
| Pretty sure the 'le' is from the end of 'Google'. It's
| Google, but just for Reddit--Redditle. I like the Turkish
| coincidence though!
| abhinavsharma wrote:
| This is great! let me know if you'd like to integrate this as
| the reddit option in our desktop extension.
|
| https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch
| tehwebguy wrote:
| One of my favorite tweets brought to life:
|
| > u can google ur questions about the world and get the CIA FBI
| answer or u can add "reddit" to the end of it and learn the
| truth
| vasilakisfil wrote:
| nice! I use that quite often, so it might come handy. Quick
| question, how did you build that ? Does Google provide any sort
| of API or did you build a web scraper for that ?
| binwiederhier wrote:
| Congratulations to you for the release. It looks great. For
| most of the queries I get that the server is overwhelmed.
| Probably HN hug of death.
|
| I would look into the Reddit trademark situation. I am pretty
| sure reddit only allows apps and websites to use "for Reddit"
| and no other name combinations with their name.
| loceng wrote:
| Top threads in Reddit are often contrived too: comments and
| recommendations mimicking real flow, just like fraudulent
| scientific studies fill the framework to look legit and where
| the layperson, and even scientists who aren't great with
| understanding statistics will believe it - and which media
| easily will promote as clickbait, making it a popular "truth"
| that the masses get familiarized with even if a shallow and
| incorrect conclusion is propagated.
| cush wrote:
| Congrats on shipping! Also congrats on your servers being
| overwhelmed! Clearly there's a demand here
| exotree wrote:
| Love this. Thank you. Definitely something I will use every day.
| Would love to provide "coffee money" ($5/month) to keep the
| lights on.
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