u/Ok_Mountain8741

I've noticed that on some reddit threads, especially new ones, there are already a bunch of replies almost instantly after the post goes up. How does that actually work? Are people just refreshing constantly or are there tools that alert them right away? Would be interesting to understand how people get there so fast.

I'm trying to track conversations on reddit the way google alerts track the web but nothing really works. Google Alerts itself is not very much effective for this since it either show things too late or misses them entirely, and a lot of great reddit content never shows up there anyway.

What I want is a way to catch niche topics in real time without getting overwhelmed by irrelevant posts, and ideally to see things before they blow up or disappear. Right now it feels like the only option is to constantly check subs.