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Ask HN: Why is search at the bottom?
Seems to be a common enough action to warrant putting it at the top.
- airbreather 8y agoWhy is the milk at the back of the shop?
- ggm 8y agoYes. the [more] button could be at the top too, but then you wouldn't have walked past the chip and chocolate aisles finding the Milk. I think you have it. But, is this not possibly a mild-grey dark design pattern?
- airbreather 8y agoI come from a place where sarcasm is the usual tone of conversation, so my original reply could or could not have been taken seriously. I was really drawing a very loose parallel because it was just enough to hold the context and also almost be plausible.
- ggm 8y agoI have pondered why its bottom only for [more] and [search] for some time. Because of how I use the site I flit back and forth in the list/page view. To me, being at the "top" doesn't mean I am here for the first time, and so I'd want more/search both top and bottom because I think the steerage would be useful to me to avoid a page-down moment to use them. I'd actually prefer keyboard accellerators and other things but I think I then get to this other place: the more HN did markup changes, the more likely it is that it would die, turning slowly into eye-candy rather than content. I'd rather they left the UI alone than it died.
- masonic 8y agoGravity.