It often outranks MDN official docs which these days are very readable, in-depth, with examples, and a simple UI and the only time I click to inappropriately named W3Schools is by accident because it's the top result and I'm expecting MDN and then I click back and that's why I don't like it.
Nothing about that makes w3 a poor source. I get why you block it - so MDN is shown first. That’s fair. Im just saying its not a fault of W3. Because I tend to agree with that guy. W3 really isnt bad. A bit simplistic, and MDN is better, but its not bad.
W3 has a bad reputation because, at least a long while ago, it was rife with blatantly false or misleading information.
Every time Kagi comes up, a lot of folks say it is too expensive. That it should be unlimited. That if it was just $x per month, then it would be worth it. That they feel uncomfortable about the limits. I will simply say that I cannot imagine going back to being a “user” of a “search provider” over being a paying Kagi customer. It is the single most critical service I worry about losing. If they octupled the price to…
Yep. As a developer my life is infinitely better because of Kagi. The product is wonderful, the team is wonderful and responsive - it’s everything I want from a company I pay money to.
I sound like a shill but I’m not. I’ve just been a happy user since their private beta and have had genuine, kind, and personable email back and forth with Vladimir.
As siblings have pointed out, reddit is actually popular for raising. For me, what distinguishes it from a stereotypical "block this please" site like Pinterest is that, clunky as the UI may be, content on reddit is often relevant and well linked up with other pages on the Web. Compare that with Pinterest which I've taken to describe as "the universal sink of the Web" because it seems to get linked to from everywhere…
I certainly agree about Pinterest being where data goes to die - and for Reddit I agree that it has an extremely high quality of information, it's just held back by presentation. If I can find the information I'm looking for on a blog I'll usually prefer that but Reddit usually has a good deal of commentary on whatever the topic I'm looking for is.
On reason that Reddit is valuable is that it often contains information that, as far as I can tell, literally doesn't exist anywhere else. This is especially true for product category research. Other than Reddit posts, any product that is even vaguely not mainstream, the only information other than Reddit will be obvious marketing blog spam that doesn't actually help differentiate anything. Generally, I'll check wirecutter, and if Wirecutter doesn't have an article about it, then Reddit is the only other useful option. If it's the only option, the presentation doesn't really matter, although I disagree with you on how bad it is. I still quite like old.reddit on desktop. Although admittedly my mobile experience has been severely degraded since my old preferred app got killed.
Every time Kagi comes up, a lot of folks say it is too expensive. That it should be unlimited. That if it was just $x per month, then it would be worth it. That they feel uncomfortable about the limits. I will simply say that I cannot imagine going back to being a “user” of a “search provider” over being a paying Kagi customer. It is the single most critical service I worry about losing. If they octupled the price to…
I feel the same way. I've been a very happy customer without any desire for going back to other search providers.
It has blown my mind for years the extent to which the Google Image Search team let Pinterest completely undermine the usefulness of their product, and they just kept on giving pinterest the top search result spots. It's honestly more useless than the pages with a list of 1000 phone numbers that you get when you try to search for who an unknown number is. Does anyone even work on Google Image Search? Is it run by a b…
I'm honestly surprised by all the Pinterest hate because I don't think I've ever once, not a single time, left clicked a Google Image Search result. It's like drinking from the dead. You just don't do it.
> It's like drinking from the dead
I get that this must be something bad, but what does it mean, exactly? Drinking blood from a corpse?
This feature is Kagi's single best innovation in search. It's what makes their results so much better than Google's: where Google's results are usually drowning in garbage websites, Kagi comes built-in with a great set of spam filters, and on top of that you can adapt your own personal list of good and bad domains as you go!
Yeah, this is _the_ reason I started using Kagi. The default results aren’t significantly better than Google/Bing/DDG, but being able to block and boost domains is a killer feature.
I find the default searches already superior for the sole reason that they're not sold to the highest bidder.
I've been shouting for years how google should know by now, if there is a relevant wikipedia page, it should be at the top of the results -- not number 2 or 3, number 1. Every time.
Likewise IMDB (not that I'm fond of the site, if there were an alternative I'd switch in a heartbeat) -- if I search for "bogart bacall" then the top six results should be IMDB and Wikipedia for The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, and Key Largo.
How google hasn't figured that out in the past fifteen years is a mystery.