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Few people want to do a site wide search and the ones who do will press the input box on the top left. No one expects that ctrl-f will open a site wide search,
by POiNTx 6y ago
Few people want to do a site wide search and the ones who do will press the input box on the top left. No one expects that ctrl-f will open a site wide search, everyone expects a page search.
If you still want to enable this ctrl-f to enable the site wide search, I suggest making it opt in with the checkbox. It's really obnoxious to have to disable the checkbox.
- awwstn 6y agoAgree that for new traffic like HN, and maybe on our essays generally, it's a bit jarring. We'll tweak these settings a bit. This search interface has been a huge hit with our regular users, but it's harder to get feedback from fly-by traffic, so this is really helpful.
- the_af 6y agoIf regular users find it helpful, maybe advertise this as an opt-in feature? To be honest, the non-standard behaviour plus strange looking popup confused me. I didn't even notice the tiny checkbox, nor that you could press CTRL+F again to get the standard search behaviour. My mistake, of course, but this speaks of poor UX in my opinion...
- awwstn 6y agoFWIW, we got the idea from Stripe's API docs[1]. Not that Stripe is above reproach, but they sure are good at this stuff. [1] https://stripe.com/docs/api https://stripe.com/docs/api