Contents pasted below for convenience with clickable links. Anybody else miss the Arc Forum search that SearchYC provided?
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It's a bittersweet situation as we rejoice pg adding a search bar to Hacker News [1] while mourning the sudden loss of SearchYC [2].
One service SearchYC provided that remains a need unfulfilled even with the new feature is search for Arc Forum, pg’s other news.arc forum [3]. This had been an extremely valuable resource to the Arc language community as SearchYC had been to the Hacker News community. It kept the old gem posts and comments which tend to get buried in the forum accessible to new readers.
How can we address the problem of lost search to Arc Forum and the other Hacker News sister forums in the wake of SearchYC’s shutdown?
I used http://af.searchyc.com/ a lot, but for the past month or two I was noticing new posts weren't showing up in the search results, so I kinda expected something to happen to it pretty soon anyway.
I'm having a lot of "shoulda mentioned that earlier" moments recently. O-o;
andres said he could help do it if there's an existing crawler for Arc Forum. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620661 Has anybody written an AF crawler they'd like to volunteer for getting search back?
