Easy way to find all internet comments discussing an article?
Is there a way to easily see all 'internet discussion' of an article? i.e all the reddit comments, hn comments, blogs, niche forums, etc talking about an article?
When I read an interesting article/blog post I want to see more discussion about it and I go through tons of google queries to see where the article has been discussed.
In particular I'd like to be able to discover new forums/blogs this way.
Have you tried Google's operators? For example, searching for:
link:www.cnn.com -cnn.com
will show you what links to www.cnn.com but isn't itself cnn.com. To search for links to this post, it could look something like:
link:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23179276 -ycombinator.com
There's an extension on Chrome that tells you if a certain webpage was posted on HN or not. That said, popular posts usually receive hundreds of comments on HN, let alone on other platforms. I have yet to read all the comments in my favorite HN posts; doing the same for Reddit and other forums would definitely be so much time consuming. I guess a good service would be something like TL;DR for comments.
Not all comments are on Reddit, blogs, niche forums, etc, there may also be comments on IRC, Usenet, Unusenet, Gopher, mailing lists, IPFS, Tor hidden services, FidoNet, FTP, and web pages which are not indexed by Google (or other web searches) (for various reasons). And some are HTTP but not HTML, using other file formats such as plain text, PDF, etc.