Accessing older posts (>1000 comments ago)
I was recently looking for a comment I remembered posting a while ago, and noticed that the comment history now stops after 1000 posts. Is there any way of accessing posts I've made before this limit, or are those posts now permanantly lost?
Posted Oct 27, 2009, 4:30 PM UTC
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i'm not sure if 1000 is the mark, but if you remember some part of a post you're looking for, go to google and type
site:reddit.com Brian whateveryouwanttosearchforhere
though with your common username, it might be a bit more difficult.
Good suggestion, but I tried that when searching without any luck - my username does play against me there, and the terms I thought I remembered from the post didn't turn it up. In the end I dredged the details up from memory without finding the post, but I'd still like to be able to track down earlier posts, if only so I can download them to be locally greppable next time something jogs my memory.
Try this:
Not bad - it's definitely turning up more relevant results, though still insufficient to find the post I was thinking of - either google doesn't have them, or I used different words than I thought of.
Yes, it's not perfect, but it's the best we have. Inbox search would be splendid, or even just a possibility to export... sigh