About reddit, the redesign actually puts the titles of other posts (suggested content intended to trigger engagement) all over the page you're looking at. Google picks this up as SEO.
So when you find a post asking your question with zero replies, you also get 5+ unrelated posts in the google search results, because at the time Google crawled the page, the unanswered post you were looking for just happened to be in the engagement spam parts of the page.
Or your first result (if no better results exist) might be where one post matches half your keywords and an engagement spam post title matches the other half.
This balloons search results with garbage.
I haven't checked if this has been fixed. Pushshift is really good, much better for searches.
Old reddit is much more secure. I have a large banner across my personal bookmarking subreddit. It's so obstructive that it blocks the 'submit post' button. Unless of course you know the secret physical password, resizing the browsing window until a couple pixels at the top are above the banner. If I put that on every subreddit I mod, it'd be a captcha for low-effort posters. It deters me from posting in the subreddit only I can post in.
About reddit, the redesign actually puts the titles of other posts (suggested content intended to trigger engagement) all over the page you're looking at. Google picks this up as SEO.
So when you find a post asking your question with zero replies, you also get 5+ unrelated posts in the google search results, because at the time Google crawled the page, the unanswered post you were looking for just happened to be in the engagement spam parts of the page.
Or your first result (if no better results exist) might be where one post matches half your keywords and an engagement spam post title matches the other half.
This balloons search results with garbage.
I haven't checked if this has been fixed. Pushshift is really good, much better for searches.
It's amazing in how many ways the reddit redesign is bad
Old reddit is much more secure. I have a large banner across my personal bookmarking subreddit. It's so obstructive that it blocks the 'submit post' button. Unless of course you know the secret physical password, resizing the browsing window until a couple pixels at the top are above the banner. If I put that on every subreddit I mod, it'd be a captcha for low-effort posters. It deters me from posting in the subreddit only I can post in.