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Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#11

Post by ICodeSometimes »

jacobsenscott wrote: post #7

Cool, a little feedback: Back button is broken, for example search for balisong knives, click on one, click back - your search is gone. Also, suddenly the search stopped working - maybe you just pushed an update? Now when I start typing into the knife type search I get force redirected to a login - but I don't want to login - I want to search. Edit: Now I see in your description you force the login after a few advanc…

> Back button is broken, for example search for balisong knives, click on one, click back - your search is gone.

Not so much broken as non-existent XD. That's a great point though, will add in functionality to keep search state.

Yep forcing login after advanced searches was the quick option there, will definitely swap it out tonight.

Thanks a ton for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#12

Post by jehb »

Forcing me to create an account after a certain amount of interaction without explaining what the account is for, or providing any information about how my personal data will be used is an antifeature. Depending on the jurisdiction, it may also be a legal issue.

That said, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a work in progress and that you'll be adding additional information about how you use my data soon?

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#13

Post by ICodeSometimes »

jehb wrote: post #12

Forcing me to create an account after a certain amount of interaction without explaining what the account is for, or providing any information about how my personal data will be used is an antifeature. Depending on the jurisdiction, it may also be a legal issue. That said, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a work in progress and that you'll be adding additional information about how you u…

That is a completely fair point, i'll bump up the interaction limit to 1000 while i figure out another way to rate limit interactions with the advanced search page.

Yeah you're right, i've been working on this for two weeks so far and haven't thought that portion out yet. Will see if i can add some form of anonymous login to avoid needing an email.

Just need the email to associate with an account to persist the collections + wishlists features at the moment

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#14

Post by jehb »

ICodeSometimes wrote: post #13
jehb wrote: post #12

Forcing me to create an account after a certain amount of interaction without explaining what the account is for, or providing any information about how my personal data will be used is an antifeature. Depending on the jurisdiction, it may also be a legal issue. That said, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a work in progress and that you'll be adding additional information about how you u…

That is a completely fair point, i'll bump up the interaction limit to 1000 while i figure out another way to rate limit interactions with the advanced search page. Yeah you're right, i've been working on this for two weeks so far and haven't thought that portion out yet. Will see if i can add some form of anonymous login to avoid needing an email. Just need the email to associate with an account to persist the colle…

I think an explanation like this one would be a great start. A few sentences about the purpose of registration would go a long way.

Also, nice site. :)

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#15

Post by amluto »

ICodeSometimes wrote: post #11
jacobsenscott wrote: post #7

Cool, a little feedback: Back button is broken, for example search for balisong knives, click on one, click back - your search is gone. Also, suddenly the search stopped working - maybe you just pushed an update? Now when I start typing into the knife type search I get force redirected to a login - but I don't want to login - I want to search. Edit: Now I see in your description you force the login after a few advanc…

> Back button is broken, for example search for balisong knives, click on one, click back - your search is gone. Not so much broken as non-existent XD. That's a great point though, will add in functionality to keep search state. Yep forcing login after advanced searches was the quick option there, will definitely swap it out tonight. Thanks a ton for the feedback!

On that note, search results don’t appear to be real links, so built-in open-in-new-tab functionality doesn’t work.

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#16

Post by icambron »

justinsaccount wrote: post #6

Neat. More things should be links. Like if I'm on https://www.knifegeek.io/blades/pro-tech-malibu Most all the words on the page should be links. "Pro Tech", "Wharncliffe", "Damascus", "Malibu" etc should all be clickable to view similar things. Oh, and you should add a metadata field for locking mechanism.. fixed, friction, lockback, liner, frame, button, axis, butterfly, etc.

Seconding about lock mechanism. The first filter I looked for.

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#17

Post by quaxar »

I'm a knife collector, so this site seems cool.

One thing that can be improved is how the knives are displayed. The white aliased border around the thumbnails looks really really bad, and really turns me off from staying on the site.

One major reason why people like knives is that they look beautiful. The image thumbnail does the complete opposite.

Please use 24bit PNG with proper alpha, on a lighter background, so blade shape and colors can be more beautifully represented.

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#19

Post by nabilhat »

A small friction point is that middle click, ctrl-click, and right-click / open in new tab are all unavailable to access details for a knife. If I wanted to compare a few results, I'd prefer to open details in new tabs. Sometimes that's a nice way to put a pin in one thing and compare it to another thing that comes up in a different search. A select-to-compare option that opens a table (optionally in a new tab!) can also work okay if it's done well but that's a lot more work and not necessarily the level of reduction in load on your end that pencils out to being worth the effort.

Otherwise, functional features would be awesome! Folding/fixed should be at the top of that list.

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