Ask HN: What happened to searchyc.com?

ccarpenterg 15 years ago |

It's dead. You can use http://www.hnsearch.com instead. HNSearch was created by the guys of ThriftDB, the same guys of Octopart. I think.

tokenadult 15 years ago |

See pg's new post about an implementation of HN search:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736

pasbesoin 15 years ago |

I hope this won't turn into another... oh, my aching brain cells -- what what the econ/market site based on HN code?

If searchyc is toast, can we migrate it as opposed to simply the deadpool? There've already been some offers to host.

I'm hopeful that they're simply exploring options, and that it won't come to actual death.

(Hmm... It seems I'm very "optimistic", this morning. More coffee!)

tokenadult 15 years ago | |

what the econ/market site based on HN code?

New Mogul. That was quite enjoyable for a while.

markkat 15 years ago | | |

You can follow economics on hubski. http://hubski.com/tag?id=economics Same code base, in for the long haul. :)

tokenadult 15 years ago | | |

That's an interesting karma (and "clout") model there, which may be of interest as an example of how social clues can promote good discussion.

markkat 15 years ago | | |

Thanks. It's unproven at scale, but so far, so good!

IMHO it's more effective to make water flow where you want, rather than to keep it from flowing where you don't. :) A little of both is necessary, but I think the first approach has more stability.

thaumaturgy 15 years ago | | |

Wow, that site looks great (content-wise). Good job.

markkat 15 years ago | | |

Ha! I like the 'content-wise' disclaimer. It's a bit of an ugly duckling, and I'm working on that.

As for the content, thanks. Slowly but surely... It's funny. Sometimes I think our small group is in a competition, trying to one-up each other in esoterica.

michael_dorfman 15 years ago |

What happened to searchyc.com?

See here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605959 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2600193

wslh 15 years ago |

Where is the json/api option?

mhashim 15 years ago |

http://www.searchyc.com