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- the version without search as you type and JS at https://hnnojs.trieve.ai/ https://hnnojs.trieve.ai/ has a more normal back button - Algolia ranks by points
by skeptrune 2y ago
- the version without search as you type and JS at https://hnnojs.trieve.ai/ https://hnnojs.trieve.ai/ has a more normal back button
- Algolia ranks by points by default while we are ranking by relevance score which is the difference. You can order our results by points if you want to with the order by select component that says "relevance".
We went back and forth on making points sorting default and ended up deciding against it, but maybe we should have. Our thinking was that since it's focused on "discovery" it was worth prioritizing relevance, but I can see how it can feel the result quality isn't as great. HN is really good at highlighting interesting links.
Best fix would have been LTR, but we made incorrect decisions early on which made the rewrite a bit too hard - https://trieve.ai/launching-trieve-hn-discovery/#relevance-quality-likely-could-have-been-better-if-we-implemented-learning-to-rank-ltr https://trieve.ai/launching-trieve-hn-discovery/#relevance-q...