I did the same and added a custom bang so I can use it from the address bar directly (!r pointing at https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8 where 8 is the lens id).

Probably least a third of my queries are preceded by an !r now. A third of the rest are now question mark queries that activates their AI fast answer. It's like the google info box on steroids since it can answer any query and it works with lenses to restrict the fast answer to specific domains.

By the way, you don't have to manually add a custom bang and point it to your lens id, you can configure a bang for the lens directly in the settings of your lens

You can also define r as a “quick bang” which means you can just use “r” without !

I've been using site:reddit.com for ages now on ddg.

oooh, I didn't know I could do this. Doing it now. Thanks!

i just pinned reddit, wikipedia to top so my searches will usually display them first.

Thats the best way, because then what you're looking for gets surfaced rather organically, and its right there, so you don't have to go out of your way to find it.

Generally I've started using bangs and lenses for changing searches in a wholly categorical manner. I.e. the !i bang for image search.

I did change the !p bang from podcasts to activating the programming lens, because programming tends to have a lot of terms that overlap with more general language, and so sometimes its nice to swap in and out of that mode.

It took me way too long to start using Lenses. I've been a Kagi user for a while now, but lenses never really seemed that useful. The unlock for me is that I'm often looking for 3D models, so I added one for all the usual 3D model suspects (Thangs, Printables, etc).

I similarly added one that is for the recipe websites I like the most. It was a game changer!

Do you find that works better than using Thangs directly? It’s a meta-search engine itself.

I have !sgn to search sourcegraph for nix code.

Forgive my ignorance. I'm curious as to how that works.

For extra fun, add a rewrite rule to change every result from reddit.com to old.reddit.com: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html

can you share your reddit's lense?