Wow, is this the newest feature-request thread? Well, it’s the newest I easily find given that LessWrong search has very poor granularity when it comes to choosing a time frame within which to search...
My feature request for LessWrong is the same as my feature request for every site: you should be able to search within a user. This is easy to do technically; you just have to add the author’s name as one of the words in the search index.
Preferably do it in such a way that a normal post cannot do the same, e.g. you might put ”foo authored this post” in the index as @author:foo but if a normal post contains the text “@author:foo” then perhaps the index only ends up with @author (or author) and foo, while the full string is not in the index (or, if it is in the index, can only be found by searching with quotes a la Google: "@author:foo"
Feature requests make the most sense in the current Open Thread (or as a quick take).
Agree that it would be good to be able to search by author. I also think this would be relatively easy. IMO it would be nicest if you just had a search field on the profile page of authors with more than like 10 comments or posts, and then when you search you filter the profile page to matches of your search (that is however kind of hard to do technically for complicated reasons). The easier thing to do is to have a link to a search page with a pre-existing filter for that user’s content.
Wow, is this the newest feature-request thread? Well, it’s the newest I easily find given that LessWrong search has very poor granularity when it comes to choosing a time frame within which to search...
My feature request for LessWrong is the same as my feature request for every site: you should be able to search within a user. This is easy to do technically; you just have to add the author’s name as one of the words in the search index.
Preferably do it in such a way that a normal post cannot do the same, e.g. you might put ”
fooauthored this post” in the index as@author:foobut if a normal post contains the text “@author:foo” then perhaps the index only ends up with@author(orauthor) andfoo, while the full string is not in the index (or, if it is in the index, can only be found by searching with quotes a la Google:"@author:foo"Feature requests make the most sense in the current Open Thread (or as a quick take).
Agree that it would be good to be able to search by author. I also think this would be relatively easy. IMO it would be nicest if you just had a search field on the profile page of authors with more than like 10 comments or posts, and then when you search you filter the profile page to matches of your search (that is however kind of hard to do technically for complicated reasons). The easier thing to do is to have a link to a search page with a pre-existing filter for that user’s content.