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Re:Ask HN: Feedback on project by benologist on Sunday August 07, 2011 @01:11PM (#2857086)
Some general feedback:

- on the statistics link the top ports to their info.

- provide more information, like how to open or forward ports etc

- your url format would be so much easier if you could just type whatportis.com/xxxx or whatportis.com/keyword rather than the index.php stuff

- it's not clear you can search for software that uses a port, you do say name but it would be more clear if it said something like "80, http, world of warcraft" or whatever

- "is this port open on my computer/server/whatever"

Re:Ask HN: Feedback on project by iSloth on Sunday August 07, 2011 @01:26PM (#2857126)
Thanks, you can actually search using the URL, for example http://whatportis.com/80 or http://whatportis.com/http, just need to edit the page so it passes the variable like this, not through the usual GET syntax like it is at the moment.

A few of the things I know need doing are:

- More content for the users and also the search engines as they dont appear to index much of the site, may be even remove the javascript tabs and have distinct pages to help the search engines a bit more...

- Edit the search page to pass variables through the URL (cleanly)

- Some how improve the search system, very basic search at the moment and probably returns too many results for some parameters.

I do agree the statistics page defiantly needs some work doing to it, such as there is the same port listed a few times in the top 5 as there is so many records for it.

Really like the 'this port is open on my computer' although dont want to look like I am attacking all of my users with port scans, so might make that a manual click to check.

Re:Ask HN: Feedback on project by iSloth on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @05:47AM (#2863471)
Searching from the home page will now use the correct URL format, and not index.php?port=XXX