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How HN took it
2 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Execution: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, direct implementation
From 1 comment
I like how in times of AI and everything is or should use an API, your implementation is more direct and straightforward. Congratulations for shipping it!
101008 on HN
Good name
From 1 comment
What a great name btw.
siva7 on HN
Objections
Search results miss people with mixed-language repos or multiple locations
From 2 comments
Looks like the language search in GitHub only finds users where the majority of their repos are in a given language. If your repos are a mix of different languages then you won't…
vin047 on HNI wrote multiple places in my location field, so I can never be found! Also one of such places has a unicode letter "ö", and github doesn't seem to work with those. You need to…
bombolo on HN
Unicode characters in location break GitHub search
From 1 comment
I wrote multiple places in my location field, so I can never be found! Also one of such places has a unicode letter "ö", and github doesn't seem to work with those. You need to…
bombolo on HN
Flutter and other niche language searches return few results
From 1 comment
I searched for Flutter dev in SF but the results on GitHub barely have any devs that have done Flutter.
livinglist on HN
Requests
Add more languages such as Elixir, Lisp, F#, Smalltalk, Drupal
From 4 comments
Could you add elixir to the language list?
voicedYoda on HNLisp, F#, ...
dunefox on HNCould you add Smalltalk to the list?
sebastianconcpt on HNAdd Drupal please. You have Wordpress.
ivanstegic on HN
Browser geolocation option and map view
From 1 comment
Kudos for the effort. If you fancy expanding the list of programming languages [1] I could use it then. I'd also introduce an option to use the browser geolocate api [2], which…
moremetadata on HN
Questions
How fuzzy are the results, especially on GitHub
From 1 comment
I can't find myself through some of these searches, even when adding parts of my name in quotes. I wonder how fuzzy these results are, specifically from GitHub
bigfoot675 on HN