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Ask HN: Why is the search at the bottom of the Hacker News?

by danielyaa5 on 2/17/22, 9:11 PM with 6 comments

Seems like a very weird design decision

  • by olvy0 on 2/18/22, 10:33 AM

    Maybe a weird design decision but it never bothers me. I don't use search a lot, but when I do I just press End on a desktop browser to immediately scroll to it, or on mobile I fling the page all the way down to the bottom. Doesn't bother me, personally.

    I also kind of appreciate the fact it doesn't take up space above, so the search field is a little bit wider than what is normally available in other sites where it is on top.

  • by detaro on 2/17/22, 9:12 PM

    I'd guess because there it is easily accessible, but out of the way since it's likely one of the lesser-used features.

  • by Leftium on 2/18/22, 12:52 AM

    I didn't even notice/forgot it was there!

    I usually just went to hn.algolia.com manually

  • by throwaway81523 on 2/18/22, 2:36 AM

    Bottom of page never bothered me, but I wish the default sort was by date, since the relevance ranking is almost useless and I almost always want the most recent hits first.