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How HN took it
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Execution: 1 for, 5 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Responsive maker and useful idea
From 2 comments
Wow, super responsive. Great work. I don’t want to ask how you scraped these, but can you talk about your software (solr?) and compute resources?
matt123456789 on HNGreat project! One thing I'm sure a lot of people would find useful is a "top comments" page that shows what the most popular/ trending topics are. Or is it possible to find what…
Leary on HN
Objections
Search results are sparse; many common terms return nothing
From 3 comments
Yeah this just doesn't get anything for most terms I've searched where you'd expect thousands if not millions of results. What exactly IS this searching?
breakfastduck on HNI don't think it really works. A search for 'Amsterdam' returns only one comment.
Freak_NL on HN0 hits for Rammstein and Romania. Perhaps OP just scraped something like a 1000 comments? Also, location filters seem to be hardcoded for US and Canada.
istinetz on HN
Only works for US cities, not local languages
From 2 comments
This doesn't work for local languages or country-specific comments, which destroys the purpose of having a search engine for FB comments.
jayolden on HNIt only works for the Us
jawerty on HN
Search does not handle phrases or spaces
From 1 comment
This needs to take spaces and sentences into account. For example, "hacker news" will find results about regular news and no comments have the word "hacker" in them.
Karawebnetwork on HN
Title is misleading; indexes external posts, not comments
From 1 comment
This is Facebook posts posted on FB pages from external ppl, not comments on other page posts. Misleading title.
altdataseller on HN
Requests
Add date display and date-range sorting
From 2 comments
This is pretty neat. I would include an option to search a date range, or at a minimum display the date of the post and let me sort by date - this would make it easier to find…
ibdf on HNThank you. The date on each is a priority for new features
jawerty on HN
Add a login extension to reach comments behind privacy settings
From 2 comments
I wasn't able to find comments behind privacy settings--can you add a login extension to make that possible?
DarkContinent on HNInteresting, yes I can do that
jawerty on HN
Top comments or trending page
From 1 comment
Great project! One thing I'm sure a lot of people would find useful is a "top comments" page that shows what the most popular/ trending topics are. Or is it possible to find what…
Leary on HN
Questions
Where the comments come from and how many
From 3 comments
Where are you getting the comments from? It seems to be a very, very tiny subset.
honkdaddy on HN0 hits for Rammstein and Romania. Perhaps OP just scraped something like a 1000 comments? Also, location filters seem to be hardcoded for US and Canada.
istinetz on HNso if i'm not from or don't care about US pages, can you at least share some info about what you do there? I'm guessing GQL but I'm just guessing.
doubleorseven on HN
What the search actually queries
From 1 comment
Yeah this just doesn't get anything for most terms I've searched where you'd expect thousands if not millions of results. What exactly IS this searching?
breakfastduck on HN