I have a feeling that if someone submitted Hacker News as a Rate My Startup post, lots of people would point out that it lacked search, and that relying on an external search engine was unacceptable.
I think it would be nice to be able to do an advanced search, such as searching for posts with fewer than/more than X number of comments, Karma points, etc., or excluding new users, including an arbitrary list of users, etc. in addition to just keyword searches.
I'm not sure how many of those advanced features are worth the effort of developing -
fewer than/more than: I don't see the benefit of this except for threads that are really active, which easily could include slight flame wars and off topic discussions
karma points: perhaps useful
excluding new users: don't see the point - throw away accounts are popular here and tend to come up frequently - I can't think of a single scenario where I would ever want to filter threads like this
including list of users: somewhat useful, if going to a users profile and filtering by a single user wouldn't be good enough
the only thing I could see as a useful advanced search option would be url filter to find posts about certain domains.
Granted these are just opinions on how I would use a HN advanced search feature; so my opinion could be part of the minority.
I totally agree that an advance search on HN is definitely needed.. you suggested some good search criterion. I would also add some timeframe related parameters as well. For e.g. this morning I saw an article with list of top 10 bloggers with maximum revenue from their blogs and I just cant find it using google..
Searchyc is ok, but I wish there was a better display of the links. We won't always know what to search for, and may miss some amazing links after they are lost in the mix.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 24.4 ms ] threadI think it would be nice to be able to do an advanced search, such as searching for posts with fewer than/more than X number of comments, Karma points, etc., or excluding new users, including an arbitrary list of users, etc. in addition to just keyword searches.
I'm not sure how many of those advanced features are worth the effort of developing -
fewer than/more than: I don't see the benefit of this except for threads that are really active, which easily could include slight flame wars and off topic discussions
karma points: perhaps useful
excluding new users: don't see the point - throw away accounts are popular here and tend to come up frequently - I can't think of a single scenario where I would ever want to filter threads like this
including list of users: somewhat useful, if going to a users profile and filtering by a single user wouldn't be good enough
the only thing I could see as a useful advanced search option would be url filter to find posts about certain domains.
Granted these are just opinions on how I would use a HN advanced search feature; so my opinion could be part of the minority.