Ask PG: Why no search box? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by kylec » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 4:32 PM UTC

Sephr wrote: post #14

icey wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He asked about it previously and people said they didn't want it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28085

I think erlanger was talking about an inbox like reddit's where it just shows replies to your comments. A messaging feature is a little different and the messages would be private like email.

With regard to a messaging feature, it might be nice to be able to contact some people here via email (or allow yourself to be contacted) without having to reveal your email address in your profile.

Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by chanux » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 4:39 PM UTC

Like to see the HNsearch button (in footer) replaced by a Search box.

Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 4:39 PM UTC

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Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by TrevorJ » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 4:39 PM UTC

Maybe it's an intentional flaw to keep people from those "other" sites from flocking here? I'm not 100% serious but sometimes I wonder if in certain cases, ease of usability hinders the maintenance of a community because the barrier to entry is really low?

Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by vaksel » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 4:40 PM UTC

froo wrote: post #17

vaksel wrote: post #3

they have a different site design, to add a searchbox on the top, he'd have to redesign the header

Well, a cheap hack could be to add it to the footer, I mean where is the immutable law of web design that dictates all search boxes should be at the top of the page? Personally, it's the current content of HN that interests me first and foremost (the NEW in NEWS). Putting the searchbox in the footer would emphasise this and not break the site design.

Well we sorta already have that with the HN Search on the bottom. Granted it would work better as a text box, or at least by linking to ycsearch

Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by timae » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 4:44 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #23

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I made "wunbar" recently, which allows you to use searchyc from your firefox toolbar (or from wunbar.com) along with many other sites (google, etc.)

Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by timae » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 4:47 PM UTC

zacharydanger wrote: post #10

Sounds like a job for Greasemonkey. Wouldn't be too hard to add a box that submits to searchyc.com/

Not hard at all (see my "wunbar" comment above).

Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by zacharydanger » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 4:49 PM UTC

zacharydanger wrote: post #10

Sounds like a job for Greasemonkey. Wouldn't be too hard to add a box that submits to searchyc.com/

http://github.com/zacharydanger/greasemonkey-searchyc/tree/m... -- Github seems to be erroring out, but you can

  git clone git@github.com:zacharydanger/greasemonkey-searchyc.git

for a peak at a search box that hits searchyc.com

Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by jonursenbach » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 4:54 PM UTC

Why not add OpenSearch?

http://jon.ursenba.ch/code/hn-search.xml

Re: Ask PG: Why no search box?

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Post by cellis » Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 5:00 PM UTC

icey wrote: post #13

erlanger wrote: post #8

And why no inbox?

He asked about it previously and people said they didn't want it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28085

That was 2 years ago. I would welcome messaging and search, and I think if he put it to a vote now he would be pleasantly surprised to get a different answer than he did then.