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I like to search by date (newest at top) and then toggle between stories and comments. also would be nice to allow stemming or not, i.e. search for "julia" comes up with stuff about juliaN assange.
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.
Using your version, I get the feeling you've never used HNSearch extensively, or at least not in the way a power user would. We at HN are power users. We need a minimum of glitter and a maximum of features. But there's not even a basic feature like by:tptacek.
I'm getting the vibe that you care more about testing your ideas than delivering features, otherwise there wouldn't be nonfeatures like image thumbnails. I would love to be wrong about that.
At a minimum, your search engine must be capable of most of what HNSearch was capable of. A simple test is: are you able to search for all of PG's downvoted comments? It should be possible to specify the search parameters: "comments only. Author: pg. sort by points. Sort ascending."
I miss the old version, as it made it possible to search stories/users/etc., and fit with the design of the site.
Where is the "order by time" functionality. This is pretty much useless now for searching old stuff you recall. I still use Google "site:news.ycombinator.com keyword" query to search on HN as many of those homemade search engines are not handling synonyms and plurals etc well.
Where is the "order by time" functionality. This is pretty much useless now for searching old stuff you recall. I still use Google "site:news.ycombinator.com keyword" query to search on HN as many of those homemade search engines are not handling synonyms and plurals etc well.
The order by time and filtering to only stories/comments was the reason I used HNSearch before. The new interface takes away all of that flexibility and makes finding things a lot harder.
I miss the old version, as it made it possible to search stories/users/etc., and fit with the design of the site.
This is the first iteration, we will improve it with your feedback
AFTER EDIT: Thanks for the comment posted previously that points out that I can, for the moment, use HNSearch
to find threads the way I'm used to finding them.
Where is the "order by time" functionality. This is pretty much useless now for searching old stuff you recall. I still use Google "site:news.ycombinator.com keyword" query to search on HN as many of those homemade search engines are not handling synonyms and plurals etc well.
It has lost a lot of usability for searches I used to do. (And, alas, since many of my examples of searches were stored in Google Chrome as form entries for the previous interface, I'll have to think for a while about what my typical searches used to look like.) How does one do usability tests on changes like this? AFTER EDIT: Thanks for the comment posted previously that points out that I can, for the moment, use HN…