Show HN: Hacker News Search updated(hn.algolia.com)
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Show HN: Hacker News Search updated
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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
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, ...)
- 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
- ThumbnailsThe 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.
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.
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.
For every single link in the search results which are HN text submissions. The article submissions still point to the correct link.
The back-button does not work (as reported in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8913272)
Right, we'll fix that asap, it's very annoying.
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?
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?
It has just been fixed. Thank for for the bug report!
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