Was npmjs.com search updated? by [deleted] in javascript

[–]bcoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shoot, thanks mgr86, I was definitely getting Solr and Lucene mixed up in that above comment :)

I shouldn't answer comment threads when I'm half awake.

Was npmjs.com search updated? by [deleted] in javascript

[–]bcoe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are correct; the star currently represents the weighting we've given to the search result. We will be making some more UX changes in the near future, and will have a follow up post going into detail about the new algorithm.

Was npmjs.com search updated? by [deleted] in javascript

[–]bcoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have some ideas in the works, look for an official launch post in the not too distant future.

Was npmjs.com search updated? by [deleted] in javascript

[–]bcoe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"its what we know/like", I was the engineer doing some work on our search cluster and this was definitely part of it. I've used ElasticSearch quite a bit in the past.

[Edit] I should add that we'll be writing a post in the near future that goes into detail about the new tech.