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Show HN: Hacker News Search updated

12 points by jlemoine 12y ago

Based on your feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801) we've released a new version of the Hacker News Search. It's accessible through the search box in the footer of Hacker News. We hope you'll enjoy the new minimal design and the additional features. Feel free to give us your dream list of improvements :) ChangeLog: 2015-01-19 - Custom date range picker - Responsive design - New "comments[<>=]X" syntax to filter by number of comments - If the story doesn't have any URL, the link goes to the HN discussion - Here and there cosmetics improvements (less padding, removed useless "upvote" arrow, ...) 2015-01-12 - Full reimplementation based on Angular.js - Performance improvements - Minimal design to improve readability - Customizable sort order (by date/popularity, by date range) - New sharing features (Twitter & Facebook compliant) - Cloudfront-based assets delivering - Experimental UI - Inlined comments - Advanced filtering/refinements capabilities - Thumbnails

jlemoine 12y ago
Based on your feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801) we've released a new version of the Hacker News Search. It's accessible through the search box in the footer of Hacker News. We hope you'll enjoy the new minimal design and the additional features. Feel free to give us your dream list of improvements :) ChangeLog: 2015-01-19 - Custom date range picker - Responsive design - New "comments[<>=]X" syntax to filter by number of comments - If the story doesn't have any URL, the link goes to the HN discussion - Here and there cosmetics improvements (less padding, removed useless "upvote" arrow, ...) 2015-01-12 - Full reimplementation based on Angular.js - Performance improvements - Minimal design to improve readability - Customizable sort order (by date/popularity, by date range) - New sharing features (Twitter & Facebook compliant) - Cloudfront-based assets delivering - Experimental UI - Inlined comments - Advanced filtering/refinements capabilities - Thumbnails
4k 12y ago
In the search results, the "link" part, which is supposed to point to the HN discussion instead points to hn.algolia.com For every single link in the search results which are HN text submissions. The article submissions still point to the correct link.
- jlemoine 12y ago
  Are you using the default interface or the experimental interface (you can click on settings to see which one you are using)? The default one should link to HN discussion/article
  - 4k 12y ago
    Default. Interesting to see that choosing Experimental interface fixes the problem!
mtmail 12y ago
The back-button does not work (as reported in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8913272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8913272)
- Shipow 12y ago
  Right, we'll fix that asap, it's very annoying.
  - ColinWright 12y ago
    Still broken - makes it effectively unusable. I'd be really interested to know - what do you actually test for before you push a new version? Do you have a checklist, or do you just push your latest version and see what people complain about?
- redox_ 12y ago
  It has just been fixed. Thank for for the bug report!
DanBC 12y ago
No zoom on iOS. This means search is now unusable for me.
- Shipow 12y ago
  Not yet designed for 320px/smartphones, but it's definitely on the road map
  - deleted 12y ago
    [deleted]
Curmudgel 12y ago
The new interface requires more clicks than the last one in order to select the options, and since I don't agree with the default options, it is quite annoying. The contrast for the drop down options is really, really bad. The fixed headers are an enormous waste of screen real estate for small laptops, and when this is coupled with the smaller line width, the effect is that information density is a lot worse. On the front page of Hacker News, the number of points and the time an item was posted are not a links, but on your search results page, they are. They're not underlined, so you just have to guess that they are links. The little heart, person, and clock icons make it harder for the eye to scan across the line, and since they're not links, they don't really serve any purpose. If the changes must stay, I would appreciate a "classic style" search option, preferably at at different URL, so that I don't have to switch to the old style every time.

12 points by jlemoine 12y ago

jlemoine 12y ago

Based on your feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801) we've released a new version of the Hacker News Search. It's accessible through the search box in the footer of Hacker News. We hope you'll enjoy the new minimal design and the additional features. Feel free to give us your dream list of improvements :) ChangeLog: 2015-01-19 - Custom date range picker - Responsive design - New "comments[<>=]X" syntax to filter by number of comments - If the story doesn't have any URL, the link goes to the HN discussion - Here and there cosmetics improvements (less padding, removed useless "upvote" arrow, ...) 2015-01-12 - Full reimplementation based on Angular.js - Performance improvements - Minimal design to improve readability - Customizable sort order (by date/popularity, by date range) - New sharing features (Twitter & Facebook compliant) - Cloudfront-based assets delivering - Experimental UI - Inlined comments - Advanced filtering/refinements capabilities - Thumbnails

4k 12y ago

In the search results, the "link" part, which is supposed to point to the HN discussion instead points to hn.algolia.com For every single link in the search results which are HN text submissions. The article submissions still point to the correct link.

jlemoine 12y ago
Are you using the default interface or the experimental interface (you can click on settings to see which one you are using)? The default one should link to HN discussion/article
- 4k 12y ago
  Default. Interesting to see that choosing Experimental interface fixes the problem!

mtmail 12y ago

The back-button does not work (as reported in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8913272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8913272)

Shipow 12y ago
Right, we'll fix that asap, it's very annoying.
- ColinWright 12y ago
  Still broken - makes it effectively unusable. I'd be really interested to know - what do you actually test for before you push a new version? Do you have a checklist, or do you just push your latest version and see what people complain about?
redox_ 12y ago
It has just been fixed. Thank for for the bug report!

DanBC 12y ago

No zoom on iOS. This means search is now unusable for me.

Shipow 12y ago
Not yet designed for 320px/smartphones, but it's definitely on the road map
- deleted 12y ago
  [deleted]

Curmudgel 12y ago

The new interface requires more clicks than the last one in order to select the options, and since I don't agree with the default options, it is quite annoying. The contrast for the drop down options is really, really bad. The fixed headers are an enormous waste of screen real estate for small laptops, and when this is coupled with the smaller line width, the effect is that information density is a lot worse. On the front page of Hacker News, the number of points and the time an item was posted are not a links, but on your search results page, they are. They're not underlined, so you just have to guess that they are links. The little heart, person, and clock icons make it harder for the eye to scan across the line, and since they're not links, they don't really serve any purpose. If the changes must stay, I would appreciate a "classic style" search option, preferably at at different URL, so that I don't have to switch to the old style every time.