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by awwstn 2070 days ago
Agree that for new traffic like HN, and maybe on our essays generally, it's a bit jarring. We'll tweak these settings a bit.

This search interface has been a huge hit with our regular users, but it's harder to get feedback from fly-by traffic, so this is really helpful.
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the_af 2070 days ago
If regular users find it helpful, maybe advertise this as an opt-in feature?

To be honest, the non-standard behaviour plus strange looking popup confused me. I didn't even notice the tiny checkbox, nor that you could press CTRL+F again to get the standard search behaviour. My mistake, of course, but this speaks of poor UX in my opinion...

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awwstn 2070 days ago
FWIW, we got the idea from Stripe's API docs[1]. Not that Stripe is above reproach, but they sure are good at this stuff.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api

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