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2299 sats \ 59 comments \ @SimpleStacker 29 Mar meta

SN recently improved its search functionality (#917048), but we also want to create a test set of search examples to use in future testing. Thus, I'm requesting your input to help us create this test set.

I'll zap 1000 sats to every post telling us about your search queries in the requested format. You can do it multiple times! Maximum 3 per stacker though. And I may cut off the bounty if I feel that enough data has been obtained (or if I run out of sats keke)

Instructions

Think of a post or comment on SN where you kind of remember the details but not really. Then try to search for it, and tell us the following:

Target: Describe the post you were looking for.
Search query: What search query did you use, and what sorts and filters? If you had to use multiple queries to find it, tell us each query you used, and which query ultimately found the post.
Result: Comment on how the overall search experience went. Did you find it quickly? Any issues you ran into? If you found the post, include the link.

Examples

Target: @SimpleStacker's pleb economist on the gartner hype cycle.

Search query: @SimpleStacker pleb economist hype cycle. Default filters and sort.

Result: I found the post as the first hit. #909279

Target: One of @denlillaapan's posts on Eugene Fama, where it had a copy pasted image of a quote that Fama once said about Bitcoin

Search query: @denlillaapan eugene fama. Default filters and sort.

Result: I found it on the first page of the search, about the 4th item. I had to click through a few because I didn't remember the exact one and @denlillaapan wrote about Eugene Fama multiple times. The post title didn't actually have the words "Eugene Fama" in it. I also misspelled @denlillaapan a few times, so autocomplete on the search bar might be nice! #862916

Target: A recent post about bitcoin on Mars (I forgot who posted it)

Search query: bitcoin mars. Default filters and sort

Result: First hit. #912199

1,000 sats paid 12 times

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130 sats \ 2 replies \ @cointastical 30 Mar

Getting 504 Gateway Time-out for any search (after a long wait), currently

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 30 Mar

Yep, something is going on with search currently. It's not working for me either.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 30 Mar

we'll look into it

1010 sats \ 9 replies \ @cryotosensei 30 Mar

Target: Assmilking. thought I would look for the post where the author explained how it has come about. Forgot who wrote it

Search query: as attached

Result: found it. Post #11. Scoresby wrote it

34 sats \ 8 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 30 Mar

Can you also link the specific post/item you were looking for?

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @cryotosensei 30 Mar

#797208

This one!

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 30 Mar

Thanks! Oh, and I didn't see it at #11 when I searched "Assmilking" as you did above. Did you try a different search query or a different filter/sort to find it?

48 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 30 Mar

NVM, I did find it after all.

note to self: the search query was Assmilking without quotes

the screenshot has quotes but they don't look like the regular quotes that would trigger a phrase-match search

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @cryotosensei 30 Mar

I have no idea what you are talking about haha

I don’t know if this is useful but I never thought about the purpose of these descriptions:

it took a direct interaction with @koob 1-1.5 years after I came here for me to realise that these descriptions are meant for people to find what they need.

I think my ignorance arose from the fact that I didn’t know what nym meant, so i never thought the descriptions were relevant for me

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1017 sats \ 1 reply \ @unschooled 29 Mar

Target: post containing "green energy transition" chart, posted by @denlillaapan.

Queried: "@den green energy chart", default filters and sort, 2nd hit #919913

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 29 Mar

let me manually help out! From this article: https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/transition-this-transition-that/

THe graph itself is this, from Our WOrld in Data

1010 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 29 Mar

Target: Darth's comment on a recent post on inheritance (this one: #926641).

search query: proof of work inheritance

result: mostly a bunch of posts from 2023 and 2024. the right thread doesn't even come up on the first try (my error, Darth's comment said "PoW" not "proof of work"... and when I searched for that it's the first hit)

I had to scroll through my own comments on various posts to even find the thread; very cumbersome

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 29 Mar

Note to self: The target item was this #926649 and the successful search query was pow inheritance

1000 sats \ 5 replies \ @Signal312 29 Mar

Thanks for working on search.

The FORMAT of the search result output is hard to read.

I searched for @signal312 carnviore

The word that you're searching for is highlighted, everywhere. If it's a somewhat common word, it's a confusing read
The excessively bold highlighting of the search term obscures the difference between the different results. It's hard to tell where one starts, and the other begins
The title of the post is in a pale gray. It's hard to see, and distinguish between them.
The title is AFTER things that are less important. Like the sats, number of replies. Maybe those would be better on the next line, in a smaller font
it's not possible (or is it?) to be able to tell whether the search term shows up in a post, or a comment. Would be nice if you could.
Also - it doesn't look like search finds everything. I searched for this: @signal312 carnviore ... and it didn't find the article #335229. And I think more were missing.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 29 Mar

How did you eventually find the post (#335229)?

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @Signal312 29 Mar

I had it on a personal list, I was keeping track of some of my posts.

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 29 Mar

Also one more thing - maybe you could limit (in the search results) how many lines you show, for each result? Instead of showing EVERY single time where the target word shows up?

The way it is now, the results are hard to visually parse. This is probably also because the title is so hard to distinguish from the rest of the results.

And then somehow giving an indication, visually, of whether the search result is in the actual post, or in a comment.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 29 Mar

I agree with your feedback on the ui/ux of search. Will open a github issue.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 30 Mar

Thanks.

One more thing...wouldn't it be cool to have a few more options in "advanced search" ?

The option would be ~PostOnly and ~CommentOnly. To be able to distinguish between the two in the search results.

Okay, just one more thing - the font that the word Filters is written in, in the above screenshot, is actively working against understandability. Maybe switch it out with something else.

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1000 sats \ 0 replies \ @holonite 29 Mar

Target: New information about the Lotes - Lightning Physical Notes Project

Query 1: "Lotes" ~bitcoin (appeared in #4) Query 2: "Lotes" @hynek ~bitcoin Came on first hit: #117623

1000 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic 29 Mar

Target: I remember someone writing an extensive post about Future bit apollo miner, I'd like to read it again

Search query: futurebit apollo all by relevance for forever

Result: Come up first result in the list, not even need to filter by post #328872

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 30 Mar

I’m honored you searched for my content

1000 sats \ 3 replies \ @supratic 29 Mar

Target: was a simple ling shared by Darthcoin about and online tool to perform browser testing

Search query: @darthcooin browser test online all by relevance for forever

Result: Secnd hit look's interesting but isn't that am looking for

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @supratic 29 Mar

Try again

Search query: @darthcooin browser testing online all by relevance for forever

Result: Second hit is what I was looking for #675782

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 29 Mar

Quick question did you misspell DarthCoin in the search query or just in this post?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic 29 Mar

just here, I copied and pasted the query link in the “Result” for each response. https://stacker.news/search?amount=&q=%40darthcoin+browser+testing+online I just misspelled in the first reply, and copied the result in the second

1000 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 29 Mar

It definitely has improved. I didn't have last year's March Madness Survivor Pool bookmarked and I wanted to review what we did before I rolled out this year's contest so I just searched March Madness Pool and the top 3 results were posts of various rounds of last year's pool.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 29 Mar

Could you link one or all 3 that you found that you would consider successful hits?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 29 Mar

#472149

1000 sats \ 8 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 29 Mar

Target: Zeus Wallet restore Search Query: posts by relevance Results: decent results by people who has issues similar to me. Ie I can’t access my sats on chain.

51 sats \ 7 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 29 Mar

Could you link one or more of them that you would consider successful hits?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 29 Mar

Wow thanks, forward, let’s go!!!!

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 29 Mar

#472149

This was the second result. It is for the first round. The other results were for the third and second round. They would be the same type of post so I won't link all 3.

40 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 29 Mar

Haha you responded in the wrong place but I'll give you the bounty

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 29 Mar

That's odd. I clicked on your comment in my notifications and it took me here. I thought I was responding to you responding to me. Maybe when I went to the link and came back I replied to the wrong one.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 29 Mar

Yeah weird, there were two extremely similar comments from me asking for the same thing from different people

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 29 Mar

Here #528574

1000 sats \ 1 reply \ @unschooled 29 Mar

target: post containing podcast testimonials of circular economies in El Salvador posted by Darthcoin.

Search query: "plan b testimonials @DarthCoin", default filters and sort. First hit (unfortunately they are all in spanish :D)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @unschooled 29 Mar

#912269

1000 sats \ 1 reply \ @unschooled 29 Mar

target: a review of J Bier - The Blocksize War: The battle for control over Bitcoin’s protocol rules

Query: "blocksize war review" filtered by Posts, showed as 10th result

Query 2: added "J bier" to original query, forth result

Query 3: added "~booksandarticles" second result.

Query 4: replace "~booksandarticles" with "@south_korea_ln" no. 1 result. #475182

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @unschooled 29 Mar

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1000 sats \ 4 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 30 Mar

Target: A post from at least a year or two ago. The poster had made some cool front end stuff showcasing different primitives in lightning and links to various tools

Search query: "Lightning tools". After some waiting for the yellow bar up top to finish loading, I got "empty" as the result.

Result: The end result was that I was unable to find the post using the search term "lightning tools".

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 30 Mar

Could I ask you to try again? Search was down this morning.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 30 Mar

Target: A post from at least a year or two ago. The poster had made some cool front end stuff showcasing different primitives in lightning and links to various tools Search query: "Lightning tools". Got results this time Result: The end result was that I was unable to find the post using the search term "lightning tools".

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 31 Mar

Is it this one? #304008

I would like to find the item because knowing the actual target (even if you couldn't find it) is an important part of constructing the test data.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 31 Mar

Best I can say it was similar, but I don't think it was this exact post

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 30 Mar

Search is improved, but I think it still need "training". I tried to search specific terms from my own posts ( because I know what I wrote and also I am one with the biggest number in posts, comments and guides, so will hve more chances to find). But unfortunately is not finding correctly.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 30 Mar

Yep this data collection is so that we can have at least a small training/testing dataset for future search improvements.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 30 Mar

It's loading forever!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nkmg1c_ventures 30 Mar

Target: I searched "rootstock" to try to find posts about the Rootstock L2 network

Search query: "rootstock"

Result: Found no results, came back "empty"

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 30 Mar

Could I ask you to try again? Search was down this morning.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kilianbuhn 30 Mar

I search stuff like e.g.

darthcoin lightning guide

It doesn't return the posts and comments I expect. Because the posts and comments don't contain the words like that. But a Google search would work like that.

Or maybe it's my fault for being too normiebrained 🤷🏻‍♀️

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 30 Mar

Could I ask you to try again? Search was down this morning.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @MMarcoduarte 29 Mar freebie

🚀 Ajude a melhorar a busca no Stacker News e ganhe 1000 sats! 🚀

O Stacker News aprimorou recentemente sua função de pesquisa (#917048), mas queremos torná-la ainda melhor! Para isso, precisamos de exemplos reais de como vocês buscam conteúdos na plataforma.

💰 Como participar e ganhar sats? 1️⃣ Pense em uma postagem ou comentário no SN que você lembra vagamente. 2️⃣ Tente pesquisá-lo e anote as consultas usadas. 3️⃣ Relate sua experiência seguindo este formato:

✅ Alvo: Descreva o que estava procurando. ✅ Consulta de pesquisa: O que digitou na busca? Usou filtros? Tentou várias palavras-chave? ✅ Resultado: A busca foi fácil? Encontrou rápido? Inclua o link se achar a postagem.

🎯 Exemplo: Alvo: Postagem do @SimpleStacker sobre o ciclo de hype do Gartner. Consulta de pesquisa: @SimpleStacker pleb economist hype cycle (filtros padrão). Resultado: Foi o primeiro resultado. 🔥

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