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Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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I’ve tried it on mobile and it works very well. Super smooth navigation, nothings lagging or moving in unintuitive ways. But for me personally the preview of the next column takes up just a little too much space. Coupled with the fact that the active column has no white space on the left and is off center makes it feel a little cramped. But I think this could be solved with a little tweaking. The overall layout looks…

Great it is working good for you, that makes me very happy. Glad it is smooth and fast. I tried really hard to make it super fast and optimized and small.

Thank you very much for your spacing feedback. What device are you using to browse? I could try making the column a bit more wider and more spacing... It is a big tradeoff between information density and spacing.

Maybe give it a try for a week and let me know if you get use to it? It will take a bit of getting use to, because the density is not like most other search engines. For example Kagi only has 1 column and a bunch of empty space on both sides.

I will need to be thinking more about spacing... thank you!

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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This is great! If you're interested in search engine UX, I'd be interested in incorporating some of these ideas into https://mwmbl.org - would love to get your input - join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#mwmbl:matrix.org

That is awesome you are working on a free search engine! Very cool.

Yes please incorporate any ideas you like.

I do think or hope search will eventually be free and everyone will have access to a good free search API.

I'll check out mwmlb deeply in the morning!

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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It is really impressive. It's been hiding in plain sight yet not implemented that people want to search specific social media sites and we add reddit or twitter at the end of our search to get those results .

Ya for real! That is basically what this new UX is trying to enable. Just more columns of views.

I've been just seeing people swiping for more on snapchat and tiktok, thinking that UX design must be good to use for evolving something else. And hit upon trying it for search.

Let me know if you have other specific search columns I should add!

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Same. Firefox on Android.

Thank you for letting me know. I think it is now fixed. Please try again now. https://swurl.com/?q=firefox

Firefox on Android here.

Scrolling to the next section works well but scrolling to a previous one feels too sticky now (requires too long of a swipe to the right for me at least).

What a great project, I'm really enjoying it. Well done!

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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-- column for "unexpected" would be cool - "747 airplane" generated page I almost pictured before I hit enter - in a way that's good - however it would be fun to have a little more "weird" discovery thrown in there somehow --

https://swurl.com/?q=747+airplane that looks pretty

Hrmmm, that is a great idea. I like it. Do you have an idea of a good source for that? Is there a website you like for discovering the unexpected? I guess maybe something like 9gag? https://9gag.com/search?query=747%20airplane

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for letting me know. I think it is now fixed. Please try again now. https://swurl.com/?q=firefox

Firefox on Android here. Scrolling to the next section works well but scrolling to a previous one feels too sticky now (requires too long of a swipe to the right for me at least). What a great project, I'm really enjoying it. Well done!

Glad you are enjoying it, thank you for your feedback and help testing!

Ok will test some more.

The problem is kinda Firefox actually. Swurl is using this newish css snap feature, but Firefox's implementation is a bit buggy. Sorry...

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