Public forums search: overview

The Public Forums search type takes a Reddit username and analyses what that Reddit account exposes publicly — its profile, posting and commenting history, and activity patterns. Pick it from the search composer when your starting identifier is a Reddit handle rather than an email, phone number, wallet address, or other identifier.

The UserSearch composer with the Public Forums search type active and the Reddit User Module selected, showing the five Reddit Module tiles, the Reddit username input, and the Cost per search line reading $0.20 over the empty Search Results panel

When to use it

Use the Public Forums search type when you hold a Reddit username and want to:

• Get an AI-driven behavioural read of the account — interests, tone, and activity patterns inferred from its public footprint (via the default Reddit User (Data: Intel AI) Module).
• Pull the account’s raw public record — its profile, post history, comment history, or activity timeline (via the matching Reddit Profile / Post / Comment / Timeline Module).

This search type exposes five Modules, all of which analyse a Reddit account. For the full breakdown of each Module, its input, and its cost, see Public forums modules & options.

The end-to-end flow

The Public Forums search type follows the same search composer flow as every other search in UserSearch — see How UserSearch works for the general model.

1. In the composer header, open the Search type selector and choose Public Forums.
2. Pick a Module from the grid. The grid is single-select: selecting one tile deselects the others, and the chosen tile is drawn with a coral-orange highlighted border. Selecting a tile loads its description, its Cost per search line, and its query form below. Reddit User (Data: Intel AI) is the default (lead) Module.
3. Enter your identifier in the Reddit Username field. This is the input for the default Module; the other four Modules are also keyed on a Reddit account and take a Reddit username too (inferred from their names).
4. Confirm the Cost per search line beneath the input before you run. With Reddit User (Data: Intel AI) selected it reads $0.20.
5. Select Search Now (the coral-orange button with a magnifier icon) to run the query.

Caution

This search type does not expose the OneScan multi-source Module or a Choose Data Source configuration modal in the captured build — only the five single-purpose Reddit Modules were observed. See Public forums modules & options for details and OneScan explained for how OneScan works where it is offered.

Note

The pre-selected Reddit User (Data: Intel AI) tile is the app’s fixed out-of-box default for this Search type (per Lee, 2026-07-10), not your last-used selection. Treat it as the recommended starting point, and click the Module you want whenever you need another.

What you get back

Selecting Reddit User (Data: Intel AI) and running a search returns an AI-powered behavioural analysis of the Reddit account — drawn from its public profile, posts, comments, and activity — via the Intel AI data source. See Intel AI (Reddit) for what that data source is and the shape of what it returns. The other four Modules return the account’s raw public record instead. Results populate the Search Results panel on the right, which carries the standard Found / Enriched / Connections counters and Details / Graph tabs.

For how to read and verify those results — the counters, the results table columns, and the Details panel — see Reading Public forums results.

Verified against UserSearch v2.0.20