The most widely known power-user tool for Reddit is Reddit Enhancement Suite, a browser extension with over a million users that adds features including account switching, never-ending scroll, user tagging, filtering tools, and enhanced image viewing to the Reddit browsing experience. As of early 2025, RES has entered maintenance-only mode and is primarily designed for old.reddit.com rather than the current redesigned interface, which means some of its features do not work on the default new interface. For users who prefer old.reddit.com, RES remains a functional and useful tool that adds significant quality-of-life features. For users on the new interface, its utility is substantially more limited. Toolbox is the primary tool used by moderators rather than general users, but its public-facing features — such as the ability to view a community's moderation notes or understand rule sets — can be useful for sophisticated regular users who want to understand how communities operate. For research and archiving purposes, external tools that allowed searching of historical Reddit content were significantly reduced after Reddit's 2023 API changes, which shut down Pushshift-based search tools. Current options for historical Reddit search are more limited, but native Reddit search combined with Google's site-specific search (site:reddit.com [search term]) remains functional for most common use cases. For privacy-focused users, tools that manage comment and post history — including browser extensions and web services that batch-edit or delete content — are a practical power tool. These include Shreddit and various open-source scripts available on GitHub. For content curation, Reddit's native save feature combined with custom user flair and organized saved-post folders provides basic collection functionality, but dedicated tools like Notifier for Reddit, browser bookmark organization, or external note-taking applications are often used to maintain a more organized reference library of useful Reddit content.
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