I have a feature request for LessWrong. It’s the same as my feature request for every site: you should be able to search within a user (i.e. visit a user page and begin a search from there). This should be easy to do technically; you just have to add the author’s name as one of the words in the search index. And in terms of UI, I think you could just link to https://www.lesswrong.com/search?query=@author:username.
Preferably do it in such a way that a normal post cannot do the same, e.g. if “foo authored this post” is placed in the index as @author:foo, 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"
P.S. we really should be able to search by date range, too. I’m looking for something posted by Yudkowsky at some point before 2010… and surely this is not an unusual thing to want to search for.
I have a feature request for LessWrong. It’s the same as my feature request for every site: you should be able to search within a user (i.e. visit a user page and begin a search from there). This should be easy to do technically; you just have to add the author’s name as one of the words in the search index. And in terms of UI, I think you could just link to https://www.lesswrong.com/search?query=@author:username.
Preferably do it in such a way that a normal post cannot do the same, e.g. if “foo authored this post” is placed in the index as @author:foo, if a normal post contains the text
@author:foothen 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"P.S. we really should be able to search by date range, too. I’m looking for something posted by Yudkowsky at some point before 2010… and surely this is not an unusual thing to want to search for.
Tip: To increase the chance that the LW team sees feature requests, it helps linking to them on Intercom.
Do you mean the “send us a message” popup at bottom-right?
Yep, that’s what we usually mean by Intercom.