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I think it's great that YCombinator is "eating its own dogfood" and the new site has some cool features, like instant search results. I have a few concerns, th

I think it's great that YCombinator is "eating its own dogfood" and the new site has some cool features, like instant search results. I have a few concerns, though. I think that there is too much whitespace, which makes content discovery take longer. An infinite scroll interface is not appropriate for HN. Content is not added as quickly as Twitter, and infinite scroll makes searching for the oldest comment or story (is that still possible?) a nightmare. Separating the username from the points/# of comments by placing it on the top right also makes scansion more difficult. The previous search engine's syntax no longer works and the functionality it offered seems to not have been replaced (If that's not true, please let me know). How do you: Search for comments written by a certain author Look at an individual comment's score Search by date Search exclusively for stories or comments

redox_ 13y ago
Thank you for the feedback, we'll improve it based on all of them in the next few days.
- sillysaurus2 13y ago
  I'm legitimately terrified that you're going to replace HNSearch, and that therefore HNSearch may be shut down. Using your version, I get the feeling you've never used HNSearch extensively, or at least not in the way a power user would. We at HN are power users. We need a minimum of glitter and a maximum of features. But there's not even a basic feature like by:tptacek. I'm getting the vibe that you care more about testing your ideas than delivering features, otherwise there wouldn't be nonfeatures like image thumbnails. I would love to be wrong about that. At a minimum, your search engine must be capable of most of what HNSearch was capable of. A simple test is: are you able to search for all of PG's downvoted comments? It should be possible to specify the search parameters: "comments only. Author: pg. sort by points. Sort ascending."

redox_ 13y ago

Thank you for the feedback, we'll improve it based on all of them in the next few days.

sillysaurus2 13y ago
I'm legitimately terrified that you're going to replace HNSearch, and that therefore HNSearch may be shut down. Using your version, I get the feeling you've never used HNSearch extensively, or at least not in the way a power user would. We at HN are power users. We need a minimum of glitter and a maximum of features. But there's not even a basic feature like by:tptacek. I'm getting the vibe that you care more about testing your ideas than delivering features, otherwise there wouldn't be nonfeatures like image thumbnails. I would love to be wrong about that. At a minimum, your search engine must be capable of most of what HNSearch was capable of. A simple test is: are you able to search for all of PG's downvoted comments? It should be possible to specify the search parameters: "comments only. Author: pg. sort by points. Sort ascending."