How to: “Use The Search Bar” (TM) - turbo mode
So there has been many newbies asking how to use the search bar or complaining they can’t find what they want via the search bar.
Reddit search is trash and everybody knows that, but there are ways you can make searching for reviews of particular bags, factories, or sellers easier for yourself.
My first mini tip is to use the “Google query+Reddit” method I’m sure you’re familiar with from non rep, real world interactions. E.g. type “God Factory C25 review rep Reddit” directly into Google and it will yield high value results. The key thing here is to make sure you include both “rep” and “Reddit” in your search or you’ll get auth reviews or reviews from TikTok sellers, etc. This will help answer 95% of the queries you have as a newbie.
But the main reason I wrote this post is to talk about Reddit’s Custom Feeds feature. When I stumbled across rep Reddit, it didn’t occur to me to make a separate account, so all the rep subreddits just became part of the rest of my feed. Then when searching Reddit in-app, I’d find I got irreverent or incomplete results more often than not, no matter how much I tweaked the filters.
So I made a custom feed. Put simply, this allows you to make a, well, custom… feed… of up to 100 subreddits that you can view separately from everything else in your Reddit account. You don’t even need to be following a subreddit to add to a custom feed. You can also have multiple custom feeds. You can then search a particular term and restrict the results to within that custom feed. This makes searching for particular information about a particular bag/seller/factory/process much easier, and is also just a better way to browse.
It’s been really helpful to me so hope this info this is helpful to someone else too! Here's how to add a custom feed in your app.
- Tap the hamburger menu in the top left of the scree
- Scroll to the bottom of all your followed subreddits
- Tap "Custom Feeds", then tap "Add new Custom Feed"
- From there you can add whatever subreddits you want, from those you already follow, by searching, or by navigating to a subreddit and adding it through the 3 dot options menu in the top right corner of the subreddit home page.
- When you've added all your subreddits, you can browse and search them all in one place.
Posted Jul 2, 2026, 10:14 AM UTC