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This sucks for one major reason. Sometimes I want to dig up a link that was on HN, and I don't know where else to find it. So I search google with site:ycombina
by Apreche 17y ago
This sucks for one major reason. Sometimes I want to dig up a link that was on HN, and I don't know where else to find it. So I search google with site:ycombinator.com. If they block Google, then that won't work.
At the very least, add a search engine to HN itself so I can search for old links.
- eswat 17y agohttp://searchyc.com/ http://searchyc.com/ (assuming it's not blocked also)
- Chirael 17y agoAgreed 100% Why produce a great site and then not let your users access its valuable content? Things scroll by the front page so fast it's not really fair not to provide a search feature. I don't care if they let external search engines (Google et al) index it, but they should at least provide /some/ kind of internal search feature themselves. IMO providing a search feature is probably at least as effective, if not more so, than the "noprocrast" flag. After all, if I know I can search past items at any point in the future, I don't feel a pressure to load up the front page several times a day. Whereas if the fast-scrolling front page is the only way to access items, it encourages that sort of rat-hitting-the-bar behavior I learned about in college psych classes ;)