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That's probably my biggest issue on Reddit.
I often put in a lot of time and effort to write a thorough reply to a question and when the same topic comes up again months later, I can't find my comment, which I could otherwise copy or link. There are some third party tools, but they are limited to the latest 1,000 comments.
To avoid people looking through all old comments of other users, I would limit this feature to a user's own comments.
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search is not
I can't believe I never searched for "Reddit search" on github. Thanks a ton!
It relies on the Pushshift API, documented at r/pushshift.
also, it can be a little hokey. i haven't dug through the documentation to figure out if it supports wildcard type stuff, but i know many times if i search for a specific website such as "youtube" on my previous comments, it will miss tons of posts but searching for "www.youtube.com" will find them. (same holds true for scotusblog, and any other website)
many times when i'm looking for a previous comment it's because i'm looking for a link i remembered including in a comment years ago.
that being said, camas/pushshift are awesome.
Seriously. Letting people natively organize and tag their comments and replies would be such a wealth of signals for the search team to mine on top of that.
It seems to have gotten worse at some point in recent memory.
I used to be able to go back forever in /u/guyblade/comments, but now it seems to not let me go back more than a year. That plus Ctrl-F was my fallback plan, but it doesn't even work anymore.