Search within post comments

[gobbledygoober]

In Apollo, I would frequently search within comments of a given post to see if other users had already mentioned what I had in mind.

Credit goes to Deemo for their /c/voyagerapp post for reminding me of the feature. I liberated the Apolloscreenshot below from their post.

The screenshot looks like it's from the iPad version of the app, which I never used. My memory of th iPhone app was that the "Find in comments" text input was at the bottom of the screen vs the top.

Thanks again Voyager team.

[aeharding]

This would be cool. Definitely a huge undertaking, however!

[maltfield]

+1 I'd like to add, though, from a UI perspective I don't think "find in post" should be buried in the overflow menu. Rather, I think users who are viewing a post would expect that the big button at the bottom of the app that says Search would search in the post they're currently viewing.

So I suggest that, if the user is viewing (the comments page of) a specific post page, then clicking the big Search button would open a text field that would search in the current post's body & comments. Additionally, next to the input query text field, there should be a button that gives the user the option to do a "wide search" across the entire community, instance, or lemmyverse.

My point is that, if the user is viewing a post and hits the search button, it should be 1 tap to search within that post. It should be two taps to do a search outside that post. Because that's what the user would expect.