I will be coding a bunch of these suggestions today! What changes were you specifically needing? Just turning off Instagram? Sorry, the 1st comment was edited, so not sure what you would like.
- The possibility to add a column for google search with flags, such as `site:stackoverflow.com`
- the poossibility to rearrange the order by which columns are displayed
Thanks a lot for the heads up and congratulations on creating such a cool UI ! I showed it around at work and everyone loved it ;)
Ok I've added a way to disable Instagram and Twitter. Is there other ones you'd like disabled? Or are you wanting to set specific ones to always show?
Right now the ones shown are automatic and dynamic. It tries to show the most relevant columns ranked in the best order, depending on your search. This opens up the idea of doing things like knowing you are looking for a code problem and showing stackoverflow results in the 2nd column.
I mean those are 2 very different design directions. Auto vs manual... Are you super thinking a full manual version would be good? I've found people generally use things more when it is automatically good.
I'll have to think more about this. A number of people did bring this up...
Please don't do that. It messes with muscle memory. Either have columns always in fixed order or let me customise the order. Google search has dynamic order and while usually Images link is the second one in upper row, sometimes it moves Maps there resulting misclicks. Terrible UX. There are very few cases where dynamic UI makes sense, but IMHO search is not that.
Right now I'm thinking about the pinning and ability to add any site. Kind of tricky to implement design vs simplicity wise.
Ok I will definitely add an option to turn off Instagram and Twitter. Is there anything besides those? Not sure I want to add an option to turn off anything, trying to limit the complexity and number of options.
Pinning... could you give me some examples of columns you would always want pinned to the front vs dynamic based on relevancy? Or some example queries? That would be super helpful. I like the pinning idea though! Just need some help thinking about this.
So on scoped google columns, that is basically how it is being done right now: https://swurl.com/?q=php+array+sort Usually google search with site: is better than the site search itself. But usually I customize it a bit if it is helpful. Stackoverflow is already there, and reddit. Is there any other specific ones you would like? I can code it really quickly.
My recommendation is to show everything by default and let the user "uncheck" the source for now. In phase 2 may be, you could make that a User level setting/default.
One source to add: HN :). For example, I know some very well known people are very active on HN. It will be nice to pull their comment history right there :). For example, "cloudflare CTO".
Not show how I could trigger that... any thoughts? I would need to correlate that search with a person, then know that he is super active on hackernews and find out the unique username. Problem is hackernews maybe isn't SEOed super well, so your profile doesn't show up in the results....
Let me know if you have any ideas on how....
Edit: 2nd suggestion / feature request: add ability to 'pin' columns to a position.
3rd suggestion / feature request: ability to add scoped google columns, I would love a column that has `site:stackoverflow.com` prefixed to all searches in the 2nd column.