Of course, in the process of preparing Reddit for sale on the market, actually improving their crappy search functionality and their terrible interface are low priorities compared to cutting headcounts and gouging companies that use the API to improve user experience. This should be a case study in ensh*tification.
There’s a larger issue here about the future of search as well. Pre-blackout we effectively had a two-tier system of quality of results based on knowing a technical trick.* I can easily envision a day when Reddit-quality results on consumer search engines come with a financial price attached, with the free version delivering ads and misinformation and disinformation on the first few pages.
[* adding modifiers to a search may seem easy and intuitive to Happy Mutants, but we’re an exception.]
