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they have a different site design, to add a searchbox on the top, he'd have to redesign the header
by vaksel 17y ago
they have a different site design, to add a searchbox on the top, he'd have to redesign the header
- antirez 17y agoNot a good reason. There is an important functionality already implemented well by others and all the work to do in HN is to add a small form. Why not?
- icey 17y agoMy guess would be the almost Sisyphean feature request list that's still being worked through: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
- froo 17y agoWell, a cheap hack could be to add it to the footer, I mean where is the immutable law of web design that dictates all search boxes should be at the top of the page? Personally, it's the current content of HN that interests me first and foremost (the NEW in NEWS). Putting the searchbox in the footer would emphasise this and not break the site design.
- vaksel 17y agoWell we sorta already have that with the HN Search on the bottom. Granted it would work better as a text box, or at least by linking to ycsearch