Public forums modules & options

The Public Forums search type exposes five Modules in the captured build, and every one of them analyses a Reddit account: you give it a Reddit username, and each Module returns a different view of that account. The lead Module, Reddit User (Data: Intel AI), returns an AI-driven behavioural read; the other four return the account’s raw public record. This search type does not offer OneScan. For the composer flow that surrounds these Modules, see Public forums search: overview.

The Public Forums Module grid showing the Reddit User tile selected with a coral-orange border, alongside the Reddit User Profile, Reddit Post History, Reddit Comment History and Reddit Activity Timeline tiles

The Modules

Module (as shown on the tile)	What it returns	Input	Cost / cost type	Data source
Reddit User (Data: Intel AI) (selected by default)	AI-powered behavioural analysis of the Reddit account — interests, tone, and activity patterns inferred from its public footprint	Reddit username	$0.20 (fixed)	Intel AI
Reddit User Profile	The account’s public profile details	Reddit username (inferred)	Not captured	Not captured
Reddit Post History	The account’s public posts	Reddit username (inferred)	Not captured	Not captured
Reddit Comment History	The account’s public comments	Reddit username (inferred)	Not captured	Not captured
Reddit Activity Timeline	When and how consistently the account has been active	Reddit username (inferred)	Not captured	Not captured

Reddit User (Data: Intel AI)

Reddit User is the lead Module and is pre-selected when you open the Public Forums search type. Its tile is drawn with a coral-orange highlighted border, and its greyed sub-label names its data source, Intel AI.

• What it returns: an AI-powered behavioural analysis of the Reddit account — a read of interests, tone, and activity patterns inferred from the account’s public profile, posts, comments, and activity, rather than a plain data dump.
• Input: a Reddit username.
• Cost: the line beneath the input reads $0.20 — a fixed per-search charge.
• Data source: Intel AI. See Intel AI (Reddit) for what this data source is and the shape of what it returns.

Note

The pre-selected Reddit User tile is the app’s fixed out-of-box default (per Lee, 2026-07-10), not your last-used choice. Click the Module you want whenever you need a different one.

Reddit User Profile, Post History, Comment History and Activity Timeline

The other four Modules return the account’s raw public record rather than an AI read — the underlying profile, posts, comments, and activity behind the same Reddit username:

• Reddit User Profile — the account’s public profile details.
• Reddit Post History — the account’s public posts.
• Reddit Comment History — the account’s public comments.
• Reddit Activity Timeline — when the account has been active.

Caution

Only the default Reddit User (Data: Intel AI) tile surfaced a data source label (Intel AI) and a Cost per search value ($0.20) in the reference build. For the Reddit User Profile, Reddit Post History, Reddit Comment History and Reddit Activity Timeline Modules, the data source, the Cost per search, and the exact input format were not captured — their inputs are inferred from the Module names as a Reddit username, not confirmed. Read the Cost per search line and the input field shown on-screen before running any of them.

The data source behind each Module

Every Module here analyses Reddit as its subject, but “Reddit” is the platform being analysed, not necessarily the data source (the integrated third party that supplies the data). Only one data source was captured:

• Reddit User (Data: Intel AI) — data source Intel AI; see Intel AI (Reddit).
• Reddit User Profile / Post History / Comment History / Activity Timeline — data source not captured.

Caution

Do not assume the four raw-record Modules share the Intel AI data source, or any single source — none surfaced a “(Data: …)” label in the reference build, so no data source is asserted for them here. For how Modules map to data sources in general, see How UserSearch works and the data-source integrations index.

OneScan and per-search options

Caution

In the captured build the Public Forums search type shows no OneScan Module, no Choose Data Source configuration modal, and no per-search filters or entity-type tabs. The five Modules run on their own, each keyed on a Reddit username. This differs from search types such as Username Intelligence or Public Leaks, where OneScan and a Choose Data Source modal are available. See OneScan explained for how OneScan and its Choose Data Source filters work where they are offered.

Per-tile controls

Each Module tile shows a data-source icon, a bold title, and a short descriptor beneath it — the standard Module-card anatomy across UserSearch.

Caution

Whether the Public Forums tiles carry the per-tile ”?” help icon or the film-strip (tutorial/video) icon seen on some other search types’ tiles, and what those affordances show, were not captured for this search type. They are not asserted here.

See also: Public forums search: overview and Reading Public forums results.

Verified against UserSearch v2.0.20