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Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web

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Post by t0astbread »

jabo wrote: post #6

OP - congratulations on shipping! WASM-powered search caught my eye. Looks like the search index is downloaded and used locally in the browser, so this is as fast as search can get. One trade-off though is that you're limited to relatively small datasets. While this shouldn't be an issue for small-medium static sites, an index that needs to be downloaded over the wire will affect your page performance for larger site…

Just a quick non-thought-through idea but would it be possible to build an index in a way that allows clients to download only parts of it based on what they search? I.e. the search client normalizes the query in some way and then requests only the relevant index pages. The index would probably be a lot larger on the server but if disk space is not an issue...?

(Though at some point you have to ask yourself what the benefits of such an approach are compared to a search server.)

Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web

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Post by mceachen »

Interesting project!

The fact that I have to fetch the stork.js from your CDN, and a random wasm blob gets pulled in as well, is unfortunately a deal killer for adoption, at least for me. A pointer to how to self-host might help address this.

Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web

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Post by StavrosK »

skulk wrote: post #7
amelius wrote: post #2

I hate it when stuff is marketed as magic, like in this case "impossibly fast web search". It's like marketeers aren't even trying to cover up their lies anymore.

IIUC, it's "impossibly fast" if you assume the search -> see results flow requires a network round-trip (a very common assumption).

It's actually impossibly slow for me, as it didn't work at all on Firefox or Chrome. Chrome showed a progress bar but no results when searching for the recommended "liberty".

Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web

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Post by kodah »

mceachen wrote: post #15

Interesting project! The fact that I have to fetch the stork.js from your CDN, and a random wasm blob gets pulled in as well, is unfortunately a deal killer for adoption, at least for me. A pointer to how to self-host might help address this.

I'm visiting my parents on a low speed connection and it didn't work at first. I had to clear the cache and restart. I don't know if it's related to this, but I suspect so.

Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web

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Post by naiv »

jabo wrote: post #6

OP - congratulations on shipping! WASM-powered search caught my eye. Looks like the search index is downloaded and used locally in the browser, so this is as fast as search can get. One trade-off though is that you're limited to relatively small datasets. While this shouldn't be an issue for small-medium static sites, an index that needs to be downloaded over the wire will affect your page performance for larger site…

You as well as your business partner are so creative at hijacking threads that it is almost cringeworthy :(

Typesense itself might be a great product but but please stop devaluating it in trying to hijack every search related post.

Re: Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web

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Post by remram »

jil wrote: post #9
remram wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get nothing either, on stable Firefox (84).

Oh no! If it's any consolation, I think it might be the site itself, not the search plugin... the site has been acting up in unrelated ways. The site desperately needs a rewrite, but I didn't have time before this launch date. Refreshing might work, but no promises? Or you could try my personal site's search bar: https://jameslittle.me/search/

That other site works, your suspicion is probably correct.
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