chengmi

It's been a rough week. Hopefully things will return to normal once DNS propagates.

I agree quoted strings in queries would be nice. There are some technical challenges in handling mixed queries where some terms are quoted and others are not, though.

"Abandonware" may be a bit extreme. How would you change SearchYC?

Those comments were cached when comment scores were turned off 10 months ago. It's strange that they haven't been updated since then.

Well, no. SearchYC has no revenue. I maintain SearchYC and host it out of a box in my closet as a service to the community. It doesn't make any sense for me to commit to do "whatever it takes".

That being said, with a few hundred dollars worth of hardware and some software changes, SearchYC should be able to gracefully handle a couple orders of magnitude more traffic.

As it stands, SearchYC doesn't get enough daily uniques to justify beefing up the system. Frankly, SearchYC was an experiment in how quickly I could learn a new technology (RoR) and build a system. I was completely expecting someone to come along a few months later to make SearchYC obsolete. It's been 2.5 years, and I don't think that's happened yet.

HN handles considerably more traffic than SearchYC.

Not unless pg replies to this with "Please stop".

I wonder if the FTC is scratching their heads wondering what to do about Apple product rumors.

SearchYC doesn't scrape the user pages containing the account creation date. We could generate numbers based on days since the user's first post, though.

I just moved the box from Cupertino to Palo Alto. Should be up now.

Oops, just restarted the server. Incidentally, the server will be down at some point in the coming few days because I'm moving.