Once it was implemented, the value it brings is immense in tying posts together and increasing visibility for older content.

I think you mean the update that @k00b did to our search engine which now uses a neural network to find similar posts with "once it was implemented".

I agree, it's very valuable to find similar posts this way. Kudos to @k00b for that!

But I think with "embedded search", a search while writing a reply was meant.^[1] For example, you could simply type / in your reply and a search would popup to find the post you want to link to. Just like you can currently @ and a search for all users shows up. This way, you don't need to stop writing your comment to link to a post. We haven't implemented that yet though.

During my first year on SN I spent a lot of time dredging up old posts to read. It felt like a shame that, at least for me, they were so difficult to find.

It's still a shame that there are no obvious, only abstract rewards for that currently but we will get there, I think. :)

1. https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/542 ↩