Make crystal orb display number of comments and votes for any discussion

Browsing6853

I hate when I open a Reddit topic with an interesting title but zero comments. This also makes very easy for the user to choose which "type" of discussion they want to land on.

Vlad

Browsing6853 We are open to this - what is smart data for general results?

We should be showing number of reddit comments in results already (most of the time)...

Protech

Vlad this should be available for all reddit posts, imo reddit is useful enough that it's worth it even if you don't implement it for other websites.

Browsing6853

Cool, I guess I just didn't notice it.

I first created the topic to suggest using the crystal orb to show domain-specific information about the website because it doesn't seem to be easy to fit everything directly in the search results. Some examples:

Github: # of stars, # of issues open, recent activity, etc
Twitter: name of author (not just username), bio, followers, etc
Recipes: time of preparation(?)
News: Author info
Shopping: price, # of reviews
Business website: address
Papers: authors, universities, number of citations

Vlad

Browsing6853 Crystal orb is mostly meant for domain specific information, not result specific information.