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I am aware. HN is often touted to be running with a minimalist bare-bones tech stack. Found this aspect rather sad and bizarre. If you get caught out without a
by bookaway 5y ago
I am aware. HN is often touted to be running with a minimalist bare-bones tech stack. Found this aspect rather sad and bizarre. If you get caught out without a blocker, you could end up sending your search info to google in addition to algolia, no?
- brudgers 5y agoAlgolia is a YC company. [1] HN got search by outsourcing it to its engine. Before that, Google was the practical way to search HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7118496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7118496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126301 HN’s minimalism is the site itself. Part of that is not writing its own search engine…to a first approximation, its a fair bet it never would have made the top of the todo list. [1]: Algolia was established and had raised investment prior to YC.
- bookaway 5y ago>Algolia is a YC company. As I stated, I'm not bemoaning the use of algolia here (there's at least an icon to inform the user of its use). Only that Google Analytics is being used in addition to it. I would think in theory algolia being a YC company would make it easier to request a workaround without GA if algolia is the one using it. >Before that, Google was the practical way to search HN. In that case, the user would be explicitly made aware they were using google services I would think. That is not the case here.
- tedmiston 5y agoWhat's the point in removing GA from HN specifically when you still need uBlock Origin or similar to browse the greater interwebs? GA is present on a very high percentage of popular websites.