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Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by zobzu »

yegg wrote: post #105
fsck--off wrote: post #61

I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine and have had a positive experience using it. This redesign incorporates two of the worst design trends today: very low contrast text and gratuitously, obnoxiously large fixed headers. I dislike fixed headers on any non-phone/tablet UI because almost all laptop and desktop screens are widescreen. Fixed position elements on the sides of the screen make much more sense, altho…

Thanks for the feedback! Our current version also has a fixed header, and that can be turned off in the settings, which we plan to make work in this next version as well. Noted on contrast. We will look into it more -- that's exactly the kind of feedback we were hoping to get.

i agree on contrast other than that i like it better than the old design

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by alexman »

Just because it lets me use "j" "k" to navigate the search results and "/" to highlight the search text is enough a temptation for me to contemplate dumping Google. I hate how Google forces me to press "Tab" and the up/down arrow keys to navigate.

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by frik »

yegg wrote: post #2

Hi all, thanks for checking it out and we're looking forward to your feedback! This next version of DuckDuckGo is in public beta. Here's the post about it I just made: https://duck.co/forum/thread/5726/duckduckgo-reimagined-and-... There are still a lot known issues that we're still working through before we can make the transition. I'm sure this thread will uncover more :)

The snippet excerpt needs some points "...". E.g. searching for "two":

one two three four ... one-hundred, two-hundred, three

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by cainetighe »

dieg0 wrote: post #231

Nice redesign, as a designer, developer and user: I like I don't like the way that video search is actually Youtube search (to use 'video' is misleading, sad face). And I imagine when it comes to images is the same. DuckDuckGo, if you would please add other media sources... Google used to do this, now it's all about keeping the user inside Google’s ecosystem.

We originally prototyped videos with several providers including Vimeo, YouTube, and DailyMotion. Sadly there was an immediate (and difficult) safe search problem and we decided to table re-enabling the others until after we got some feedback about how it worked.

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by dredmorbius »

kisielk wrote: post #170
dredmorbius wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why God gave us a "Home" key. Though Steve, who thought he was God, took it away from some of You.

fn+left arrow is home on a Mac keyboard.

Do you have any idea of how many times I've rediscovered that?

And how long it's taken each time?

That and page-up / page-down. Yes, they're somewhat useful for navigating documents (including webpages).

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by dredmorbius »

sdougbrown wrote: post #178
dredmorbius wrote: post #102

I've been using DDG intermittently for the past two years, and solidly (with fallbacks to other search engines) since June, 2013. Overall the design looks decent. Remember: less is more. I don't know if features were modified since fskc--off posted, but I'd agree strongly with both his primary concerns: ditch ALL fixed headers and footers, on ALL devices, and keep maximal contrast throughout the site. My eyes are no…

I think you'll probably want to remove those font-size adjustments and re-assess afterwards. You'll find that the majority of the redesign is indeed sized with ems, including all text sizes. You'll also want to adjust #header_wrapper to position:absolute if you deice that you're not going to use the settings to disable the fixed header behaviour - setting static without adjusting the settings will be unpleasant. To b…

I'll re-review. The font sizes I suspect I'll keep. They're pretty standard across most sites I use, though for text-heavy ones that are actually document-based, I'll even bump them up further -- 17-18pt for true long-form reads.

Static for header hasn't been an issue for me. Headers that are sufficiently annoying just get iced ;-)

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by hjalle »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #233

Hey Gabriel, congrats on the new launch! The new autocomplete -as-you-type feature made me curious: you mentioned that you don't associate queries with IP addresses, but does DDG save queries?

Looks like an already asked question:

  To be clear, we still don't collect or share personal           
  information and auto-suggest does not impact that at all.
  I   appreciate it may make you and others uncomfortable 
  and we're sensitive to that, but it is not a change in 
  terms of privacy. We simply do not associate queries with 
  personal information (e.g. IP addresses) and in fact    
  don't store any of it at all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7700960

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by avree »

yegg wrote: post #105
fsck--off wrote: post #61

I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine and have had a positive experience using it. This redesign incorporates two of the worst design trends today: very low contrast text and gratuitously, obnoxiously large fixed headers. I dislike fixed headers on any non-phone/tablet UI because almost all laptop and desktop screens are widescreen. Fixed position elements on the sides of the screen make much more sense, altho…

Thanks for the feedback! Our current version also has a fixed header, and that can be turned off in the settings, which we plan to make work in this next version as well. Noted on contrast. We will look into it more -- that's exactly the kind of feedback we were hoping to get.

I love this design—it convinced me to finally switch from Google to DuckDuckGo as my default search provider.
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