You can now search the comments within an individual Reddit post

Reddit announced today that it added the ability to search for comments within a single post. The new feature is now available on desktop, iOS and Android.

As Reddit mod u/anon-axolotl explained in the pinned announcement post in r/reddit, So what does this mean? You don't have to cmd-f' on the post page anymore and you can search comment threads without expanding them. No more long scrolling sessions - quickly get to the parts of the conversation you're looking for and jump in where you want." Previously, searching in a browser with Ctrl-F (Windows) or Cmd-F (macOS) required you first to expand any collapsed comments before it would yield the full results. Reddit's enhanced built-in search will bring up all results without extra taps or clicks.

The new feature builds on the ability to search comments sitewide, which Reddit only added last year. Before that, Reddit's search would only yield results from the original posts and topics within a community.

Reddit has been busy beefing up its search capabilities in recent months. It introduced the ability to search for text within images in October, which is handy for memes or other text-filled pictures. The company also improved the algorithm for its subreddit search, delivering a larger number of and more relevant subreddits for most searches" along with better autocomplete results. Finally, it incorporated better navigation for video search results in Reddit mobile apps, letting you swipe up and down to browse between the results of a video search easily.