Like some other comments here I find HN search useful and powerful and am a little unsure what the added value is here. Possibly/probably it's for people that search in a different way to me.
One of the most frequent searches I do is to look for a specific comment that I know a user made recently. For example, I might want to look for my own comment here: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=40801389 (sorry, this is a slightly political one but I just picked it randomly for test purposes).
Maybe 6 days ago is outside the dataset that this is based on?
Some other thoughts/suggestions:
- Ability to click through to the comment itself? At the moment it looks like the link goes just to the main comments page and then I have to find the relevant comment on the page.
One of the most frequent searches I do is to look for a specific comment that I know a user made recently. For example, I might want to look for my own comment here: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=40801389 (sorry, this is a slightly political one but I just picked it randomly for test purposes).
Searching Vectara for "n4r9 NHS" produces no results: https://hackernews.demo.vectara.com/?query=n4r9+NHS&filter=
HN's own search however produces the goods in the top result: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
[ EDIT except for this very post :p ]
Maybe 6 days ago is outside the dataset that this is based on?
Some other thoughts/suggestions:
- Ability to click through to the comment itself? At the moment it looks like the link goes just to the main comments page and then I have to find the relevant comment on the page.
- Filter comments vs posts?
- Order by datetime?
- Filter within a date range?