2 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: SEARCH on new Modmail is here!
I'm glad you like it, and I hope you find it useful!
Out of curiosity, what's your use case for free-form time ranges on regular searches?
Comment by SirBuckeye at 23/10/2018 at 23:52 UTC*
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
As a mod of r/kpop the most obvious use case is if I want to see the top music video posts from 2015. I can't search for [MV] and restrict the search to just one year in the past. That would be cool.
Also, maybe I'd like to see what the top posts of all time were at the end of 2016. If I could search and sort by Top > Before Dec 31, 2016, then I could see that. It would be a good indicator of growth based on the scores from then compared to now.
Maybe it would be cool to have a throwback post of what was "hot" this week 5 years ago. If I could search Top > Oct 20, 2013 - Oct 27, 2013 then such a thing would be possible.
Sometimes I need to search for announcement posts from the distant past. I know the post is really old, but it has common words in the title. It would be nice to be able to say only search older than a certain date.
Lastly, there's a huge gap between "Past Month" and "Past Year". Maybe I only want to see "Past 6 months" or "First Quarter of 2018". More granular time range searching would allow all of that plus more.
Comment by Dirish at 24/10/2018 at 13:17 UTC*
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We use it to find the yearly "best of" posts. It's been a royal pain in the neck to do that after reddit removed that feature a while back. Luckily there's usually a technomage who offers a solution in the "best of 201x" announcement posts, but it would be nice to have this back as a regular feature.
[edit] Forgot to thank you guys for the search feature. I love it!