Reddit Search FAQ

Direct answers to the questions people ask most about finding and viewing Reddit profiles. Each one leads with a yes or no.

Several of these answers are no. Reddit keeps more private than people expect, and the honest answer is more useful than a workaround that does not exist. Where something is genuinely possible, the answer says how.

Questions

• Can You Search Reddit by Username?Yes. Here is what a username search returns on Reddit, and where it falls short.
• Can You See Who Viewed Your Reddit Profile?No. Reddit does not track or report profile views to anyone, and no tool can retrieve them.
• How to Check if a Reddit Account Is ShadowbannedHow to tell a shadowbanned account from a suspended one or a deleted one, using what is publicly visible.
• Can You Find a Reddit User by Email?No. Reddit never exposes account email addresses. Here is what you can search on instead.
• Can You See Someone's Reddit History?Yes. A Reddit account's posts and comments are public, even when the profile hides them. Here is how to see the full history in one place.
• Why Does a Reddit Profile Show No Posts?A Reddit profile with karma but no posts has hidden its history, and the posts are still public. Here is how to tell, and how to see them.
• Can You See What Someone Upvoted on Reddit?No. Reddit keeps every account's upvotes, downvotes and saved posts private. Here is what you can see instead.
• How to Tell if a Reddit Account Was DeletedA deleted, suspended and shadowbanned Reddit account each look different. How to tell which one you are looking at, and what is still visible.
• Why Can You Only See 1,000 Reddit Posts?Reddit lists only about 1,000 items per sort order on a profile. Why the cap exists and how to reach a user's older posts and comments.

The short version