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Re: HN Search Updated

#12

Post by fsck--off »

I think it's great that YCombinator is "eating its own dogfood" and the new site has some cool features, like instant search results.

I have a few concerns, though.

I think that there is too much whitespace, which makes content discovery take longer. An infinite scroll interface is not appropriate for HN. Content is not added as quickly as Twitter, and infinite scroll makes searching for the oldest comment or story (is that still possible?) a nightmare. Separating the username from the points/# of comments by placing it on the top right also makes scansion more difficult.

The previous search engine's syntax no longer works and the functionality it offered seems to not have been replaced (If that's not true, please let me know).

How do you:

Search for comments written by a certain author

Look at an individual comment's score

Search by date

Search exclusively for stories or comments

Re: HN Search Updated

#13

Post by namenotrequired »

jlemoine wrote: post #7
namenotrequired wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this a real "update" or did you just create your own unofficial alternative? I thought the original was by the Octopart guys?

Yes this is a real "update", we explain details on our blog post: http://blog.algolia.com/hacker-news-search-algolia/

From that blog, it seems more like a new "alternative" to it rather than an "update" that replaces the existing one, but if it's purely a matter of semantics, I guess that's fine - just making sure I understand it right.

Congrats on getting into YC by the way! :)

Re: HN Search Updated

#15

Post by dictum »

pdog wrote: post #11

I always found HNSearch[1] to be excellent, but it's good to see a little competition. [1]: https://www.hnsearch.com/

If anyone from HNSearch is listening:

You should default to HTTPS for all links to HN.

Re: HN Search Updated

#16

Post by gruseom »

I love how fast it is! Two things I rely on heavily with the old hnsearch are (a) restrict to stories or comments, and (b) sort by date (most recent first). Can you please do those? Especially the second one.

Re: HN Search Updated

#17

Post by redox_ »

fsck--off wrote: post #12

I think it's great that YCombinator is "eating its own dogfood" and the new site has some cool features, like instant search results. I have a few concerns, though. I think that there is too much whitespace, which makes content discovery take longer. An infinite scroll interface is not appropriate for HN. Content is not added as quickly as Twitter, and infinite scroll makes searching for the oldest comment or story (…

Thank you for the feedback, we'll improve it based on all of them in the next few days.

Re: HN Search Updated

#18

Post by redox_ »

dictum wrote: post #15
pdog wrote: post #11

I always found HNSearch[1] to be excellent, but it's good to see a little competition. [1]: https://www.hnsearch.com/

If anyone from HNSearch is listening: You should default to HTTPS for all links to HN.

Right, working on it.

Re: HN Search Updated

#19

Post by andres »

pdog wrote: post #11

I always found HNSearch[1] to be excellent, but it's good to see a little competition. [1]: https://www.hnsearch.com/

Thanks! It's great to hear you found HNSearch useful. We were very happy to power search for HN but we haven't been able to dedicate much time to making it better. It's exciting to see Algolia iterating on HN's search functionality.
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