SearchYC is shutting down • Hacker News Board

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#31

Post by omouse » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:01 PM UTC

Turn it into free software! It would be invaluable to the community and you would get a hell of a reputation for it I think, especially from hackernews users.

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#32

Post by wallflower » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:03 PM UTC

Thank you!

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#33

Post by lanstein » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:03 PM UTC

mortenjorck wrote: post #24

JshWright wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scroll all the way down.

Is that a UI design pattern to decrease server load? There's nothing intrinsically wrong with search in the footer, but it defies 15 years of convention and thus takes a big hit to discoverability.

How long has it existed? How did I miss this?

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#34

Post by dschobel » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:18 PM UTC

Can't thank you guys enough. If you have a paypal link where we can send you some beer money, I'm sure you'd collect a few rounds worth. Cheers!

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#35

Post by jashkenas » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:21 PM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #6

Instead of shutting down, can't you hand it off to someone? Please!

+ 1. I also depend on searchyc's RSS feeds for specific searches. They're super helpful for keeping on top of specific projects.

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#36

Post by pbhjpbhj » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:23 PM UTC

ivank wrote: post #18

With SearchYC gone, is there still a way to get an RSS feed for a user's comments?

Now we don't have comment scores I'm afraid I have to add:

^ this

I've been using SearchYC to archive my comments via the RSS feed. Can I do this some other way?

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#37

Post by jmatt » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:24 PM UTC

lanstein wrote: post #33

mortenjorck wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a UI design pattern to decrease server load? There's nothing intrinsically wrong with search in the footer, but it defies 15 years of convention and thus takes a big hit to discoverability.

How long has it existed? How did I miss this?

Yeah I nearly missed it too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#38

Post by kooshball » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:35 PM UTC

JshWright wrote: post #14

rudiger wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Search is integrated? Where is it?

Scroll all the way down.

it's basically unusable for anyone using an auto page loading extension like AutoPatchWork since the auto loaded next page replaces the bottom of the page.

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#39

Post by karussell » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:45 PM UTC

If you still need rss feeds you could use http://jetsli.de (launching in ~2 weeks)

You will be able to search for 'geeky news' also on other services than hackernews.

Re: SearchYC is shutting down

#40

Post by detst » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 9:46 PM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #36

ivank wrote: post #18

With SearchYC gone, is there still a way to get an RSS feed for a user's comments?

Now we don't have comment scores I'm afraid I have to add: ^ this I've been using SearchYC to archive my comments via the RSS feed. Can I do this some other way?

Not RSS but you can get the data in JSON format using HNSearch.

This will give your 10 most recent comments: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...

Documentation here to tweak for your needs: http://www.hnsearch.com/api

EDIT: Added filter to return only comments; previously included submissions, too.