Seems like a very weird design decision
Ask HN: Why is the search at the bottom of the Hacker News?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is the search at the bottom of the Hacker News?
#2I'd guess because there it is easily accessible, but out of the way since it's likely one of the lesser-used features.
Re: Ask HN: Why is the search at the bottom of the Hacker News?
#3I didn't even notice/forgot it was there!
I usually just went to hn.algolia.com manually
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#5I didn't even notice/forgot it was there! I usually just went to hn.algolia.com manually
That or even google with site:ycombinator.com
Re: Ask HN: Why is the search at the bottom of the Hacker News?
#6Bottom of page never bothered me, but I wish the default sort was by date, since the relevance ranking is almost useless and I almost always want the most recent hits first.
Re: Ask HN: Why is the search at the bottom of the Hacker News?
#7Maybe a weird design decision but it never bothers me. I don't use search a lot, but when I do I just press End on a desktop browser to immediately scroll to it, or on mobile I fling the page all the way down to the bottom. Doesn't bother me, personally.
I also kind of appreciate the fact it doesn't take up space above, so the search field is a little bit wider than what is normally available in other sites where it is on top.
Re: Ask HN: Why is the search at the bottom of the Hacker News?
#8Bottom of page never bothered me, but I wish the default sort was by date, since the relevance ranking is almost useless and I almost always want the most recent hits first.
I agree. If you go to
https://hn.algolia.com/
instead, you can set the default sort in the settings.