Re:HN Search Updated
by aabalkan on Friday January 24, 2014 @06:58PM
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Where is the "order by time" functionality. This is pretty much useless now for searching old stuff you recall. I still use Google "site:news.ycombinator.com keyword" query to search on HN as many of those homemade search engines are not handling synonyms and plurals etc well.
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The order by time and filtering to only stories/comments was the reason I used HNSearch before. The new interface takes away all of that flexibility and makes finding things a lot harder.
We will make changes in the next couple of days and we will ask feedback again.
We prefer to launch sooner with few features and get community feedback rather than developing tons of features that we are the only to use :)
I mostly used the sort by date to find a recent (a few days, or last week) submission that I remember but it’s too deep to find in the normal page.
I'd found things from over a year ago with sort by date functionality (because of lack of good synonym matching and the fact that hn's url structure makes searching for comments less likely from an 'SEO' perspective)