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Interesting read and nice success story... On DirectedEdge home, can I enter any search term, or does this need to be a well formatted Wikipedia entry url ?

• wheels 17y ago
  If you type the beginning of an article name it should autocomplete after a sec (it's a little slower than it should be...) There's also an easter-egg you can use: http://www.directededge.com/?Y%20Combinator http://www.directededge.com/?Y%20Combinator
  • davidw 17y ago
    BTW, time to put up a nice looking 404 page or fix whatever's wrong: http://www.directededge.com/dsfdsfds http://www.directededge.com/dsfdsfds
    • sailormoon 17y ago
      What is wrong with that 404 page? It's a 404. Form follows function. I prefer it to a prettified version, honestly.
      • davidw 17y ago
        "Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." suggests that something is amiss. I'm not a big fan of overboard, fancy graphics (just look at my sites), but just a little bit of looking nice goes a long way.
        • sailormoon 17y ago
          It's a standard Apache error. No big deal. Really, if the user hits a 404 then something has gone badly wrong and I think it's appropriate for them to get an ugly message.
          • davidw 17y ago
            Yes, I know it's a standard Apache error (I know a thing or two about Apache). What you are apparently not seeing is that there's an error when trying to handle the 404 with the ErrorDocument directive, which indicates that their configuration needs a bit of tweaking. Even for 404 errors, it's pretty standard practice on corporate web sites to include at least some of the main site's look and feel, with a link back to the main page or something.
            • sailormoon 17y ago
              But it's not a corporate web site. Thank god...
          • indranil 17y ago
            If it is a 404 page, do not assume that it's something the user has done intentionally. Links change, sites link wrongly. Link-shit happens. If you really want your users to be helped by your site, even when they've ended up somewhere they probably shouldn't have gone, you need to have a basic 404 error page which gently describes that the page doesn't exist and contains a link back to the home. Not everyone using a website will see "404" and understand what it is, and without a link back to the main site, a user (potential customer) is lost.
    • wheels 17y ago
      If you were trying to hit the easter egg you have to put it in the query string, not just as a sub-url.
      • davidw 17y ago
        Yeah, I noticed that, but there's definitely an ugly page there that I thought you might want to fix.
  • gord 17y ago
    Thanks. disclaimer : I'm a radical graph data, noSQL proponent, so you had me at 'edge', however... The only thing that I care about on that page is the graph. Id like to see just that graph, but prefetched, fluid interactive javascript. Nothing else, except the text bar at top, and the interactive sliding autoscaling graph data app. That would be wonderful, a new thing packaged out of old things Id half enunciated a thousand times myself. the other stuff, Id put in some links. This way you have all the focus on what your about. So my 'Crazy Thought' is - make that the whole company, trim away everything else. What would it look like if you had 2000 data points on the screen, gradually getting smaller at the edges, and fluidly navigating with say 500 nodes of prefetch ahead. This should be in JS using Raphael if its not already .. [ I didnt see a raphael.js inclusion in your source page. ]
    • gord 17y ago
      Well 'should be in rapheal.js' comes across a bit strong... I meant : it seems a good kit, you've probably heard of it.