Please add a option to display metric units instead.
Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Yes, keeping this state in the URL makes for a much better user experience.
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#23Reenactment, LARPing, competition fencing swords sure - but do people buy real swords with modern materials?
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#24I love it! a filter to search based on if the knives have an emerson opener would be a cherry on top.
Also a filter for if the knives had assisted opening.
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#25A 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…
Oh, yeah. Sites which disable the much-loved "command-click" are a PIA. Let people browse as they will; forcing them along your expected paths is inconsiderate and off-putting.
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#26I'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 b…
+1
The hover effect, too. Nice experiment to learn something, now it's time to burn it with fire.
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#27How did you approach the data population? The images of the knives are all consistently positioned, which is impressive, and there seems to be a decent amount of structured data for the number of entries you have
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#28It'd be great if there was this for flashlights too. I know there's candlepower forums etc but it's hard to really find what I'm looking for. There's so much on the market.
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#29For some reason I'm getting scroll bars on some of the text fields in Firefox[0]. It's not just your site, I notice them on other sites as well like on Reddit[1], so maybe the fault lies with Firefox or even just my installation.
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#30Being unable to middle mouse click knives to open new tabs is a usability dealbreaker for me. Wrap the image with links, not binding awkward events.
It'll also reduce your load a bit, as I won't have to continuously reload the grid page of 50 knives just to look at one.
Some other suggestions:
* If I search handle material "micarta" I get a whole bunch of distinct incarnations, like "micarta, ash wood burl" and "bone, micarta, wood". Tokensise each term in the material type and return them as groups. "micarta" should have both of those, as should "wood", and ofc "bone" would distinguish them.
* For brand search, populate the list alphabetically or something. It's nice to have a list to scroll to explore. I have no idea what options are available other than a few brands I already know. If the goal is to find and explore the 60k knives there, I need some help.
* Sanity check the knife stats. There are going to be zero knives with a blade thickness of 1", nevermind 5". An example of one that shows up here is this knife: https://www.knifegeek.io/blades/boker-121589 which I presume you scraped from here: https://www.boker.de/en/vollintegral-2.0-jaeger-gold-121589#... but you should maybe have a secondary scrape for stats that are impossibly beyond params. Here seems to have the correct blade thickness: https://www.knifecenter.com/item/BO121589/boker-jager-gold-v...
* From the knive page, present tags to re-broaden the search. Using that same knife example, the navigations is currently: `Blades -> Boker Jager Gold Vollintegral ...` which is useless. It's a knife in the category of knives on a knives website. I'd like to be able to navigate back by type / brand etc.
It helps the exploration. I might find something I think has nice features and want to explore that set more.
* An obvious one I'm sure you have planned, but there are much more crucial and interesting features than the ones listed for filters. I care far far more about the general style of knife than I do blade thickness or handle material.
Fixed vs folding vs others is ofc vital.
Within the category of folding, the type of lock, if any.
Blade shape, a no brainer.
Nice to have overarching categories too. Rescue vs dive vs bushcraft would help immensely.