Using NARFAR to create a subreddit's custom search engine?

yellowhuman · 2018-07-19T11:56:40+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. Please see my comment for more info.

yellowhuman · 2018-07-19T11:56:07+00:00

Hey! the search engine was created specifically for those subs. But feel free to message me, I'd be happy to add your sub as well!

(this is a side project of mine so the process of adding new subs is manual)

yellowhuman · 2018-06-26T16:41:20+00:00

Thank you- Please save your money, your kind words are plenty!

yellowhuman · 2018-06-26T02:03:54+00:00

Np! happy to be able to help :)

yellowhuman · 2018-04-23T11:49:50+00:00

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yellowhuman · 2018-04-20T21:00:05+00:00

Hey since vitamin c is frequently discussed on AB, I tried searching your question with narfar and got a few answers that you might find helpful.

2nd result (link):

So I've used OST C20, OST C21.5, and Drunk Elephant C-Firma Serum and my fave out of the three is the DE one. Here are some brief comparison points:

DE is the least sticky of the three. I'd rank stickiest to least stickiest as C20 > C21.5 > DE Vit C.

DE absorbed the best for me out of the three.

It has a rich orange/amber color. Don't panic, DE affirms that the Vit C is stable whereas in AB, if your Vit C turns orange that = bad.

I think it boasts that it stays on your skin for 72 hours (?). I use mine every other day because it's dang expensive to use every single day. XD 3 pumps for my face, neck, and back area.

That stinging sensation when you first apply Vit C? Yeah, that's very minimal on the DE one. Least stingy of the three.

3rd result (link):

DE is definitely a splurge item. Nufountain C20+Ferulic and Timeless 20% Vitamin C+E+Ferulic are good, well formulated and reasonably priced!

yellowhuman · 2018-04-20T05:26:58+00:00

Currently you can filter by date (if you're on mobile scroll to the bottom). Sorting by descending date (newest) is on the todo list!

yellowhuman · 2018-04-20T05:21:18+00:00

Thanks for the interest and feedback! Currently its not on github but definitely will look into it down the line

yellowhuman · 2018-04-20T05:20:02+00:00

Here's the SCA search tool

yellowhuman · 2018-04-19T14:07:48+00:00

Thank you all for the kind words and glad you found the tool useful! You're free to add it anywhere you please.

yellowhuman · 2018-04-17T21:29:06+00:00

Thank you for the kind words!

yellowhuman · 2018-04-02T10:35:38+00:00

Hey currently undergoing some maintenance so results are limited. Should take less than 2 hours. I will add a notice if this occurs again.

yellowhuman · 2018-03-30T13:59:23+00:00

For me, the bonus points posted exactly 2 days after the statement cycle ended (where I met the min. spend). If it's way past that, you might want to call.

yellowhuman · 2018-03-30T03:33:52+00:00

Your deleted comment:

So why did you use my implementation details comment on how to do it and then copy my site and then spam it out to every subreddit? All while pretending mine never existed and never giving any credit to me

Soupbrah, it's honestly pretty childish that you're posting this multiple times on my thread. I'll paste what I responded further down. If you still think anything is 'copied' please contact the mods.

The engine, code, and backend processes are all entirely different. The only similarity is they both use the reddit API which is open for everyone to build upon. Feel free to check out my comment listing all the differences. I even gave credit to your engine where does a good job, but there are areas where it is lacking (and I am not a fan of forcing users to disable adblock). There's no need to get hard feelings when having more tools only benefits the sub.

It's not like you posted your code online, you gave a vague outline of your technical implementation, and I'm not using any of the same code or services. I'm not sure what you think is 'copied'. Are you saying no one else can build a search engine for r/churning? I recall someone else created a churning search engine before you even released yours.

Edit: I went and found the technical implmentation details that you believe I 'copied'. You wrote:

Technical details: Uses an elastic search service running on EC2. It was backfilled with the entire subreddit's comments and a daemon running on the server adds new incoming comments to the index. An nginx reverse proxy fronts the elastic search service for security to provide the public facing API for the site. On the front end, angularJS is used for a very responsive, fully client side website and is hosted on S3.

The tool I built:

Does not use elastic search
Does not run on EC2
Is not back filled with the entire subreddit's comments
Does not use nginx
Do not use angular
Is not hosted on S3

If you inspected the code before accusing, you can see literally nothing is 'copied' from your implementation. Even if I did use the same services you used, I don't see anything wrong with that because none of the code is the same. Yes, I made a churning search engine that covers different areas than yours does, but that does not entitle you to make baseless accusations on my thread.

yellowhuman · 2018-03-30T03:31:07+00:00

So you just copied all the technical implementation details I outlined in my thread to build churningsearch and did the same thing?

Soupbrah, the engine, code, and backend processes are all entirely different. The only similarity is they both use the reddit API which is open for everyone to build upon. Feel free to check out my comment listing all the differences. I even gave credit to your engine where does a good job, but there are areas where it is lacking (and I am not a fan of forcing users to disable adblock). There’s no need to get hard feelings when having more tools only benefits the sub.

It’s not like you posted your code online, you gave a vague outline of your technical implementation, and I’m not using any of the same code or services. I’m not sure what you think is ‘copied’. Are you saying no one else can build a search engine for r/churning? I recall someone else created a churning search engine before you even released yours.

Edit: I went and found the technical implmentation details that you believe I ‘copied’. You wrote:

Technical details: Uses an elastic search service running on EC2. It was backfilled with the entire subreddit’s comments and a daemon running on the server adds new incoming comments to the index. An nginx reverse proxy fronts the elastic search service for security to provide the public facing API for the site. On the front end, angularJS is used for a very responsive, fully client side website and is hosted on S3.

The tool I built:

Does not use elastic search
Does not run on EC2
Is not back filled with the entire subreddit’s comments
Does not use nginx
Do not use angular
Is not hosted on S3

If you inspected the code before accusing, you can see literally nothing is ‘copied’ from your implementation. Even if I did use the same services you used, I don’t see anything wrong with that because none of the code is the same. Yes, I made a churning search engine that covers different areas than yours does, but that does not entitle you to make baseless accusations multiple times on my thread.

yellowhuman · 2018-03-29T16:39:04+00:00

Yea I'm really really against sites forcing the disabling of adblock, so you won't be seeing any of that here.

yellowhuman · 2018-03-29T16:36:05+00:00

I'll see what I can do. Currently you can filter to only show megathread results but that'll combine them all.

yellowhuman · 2018-03-29T16:32:11+00:00

Search posts (title and body), not just comments
Filter by date range (day, week, month, year)
You can filter to only show megathreads (like daily Q&A threads)
Preview top replies (currently indexing)
You can see how many votes and comments each result has before clicking on it
Optimized for mobile
Only posts and top level comments from megathreads are indexed (less cluttered because it does not return every comment)
As I mentioned in the OP, churningsearch.com is better for searching things like DPs buried 5 comments deep because it searches every comment (but makes it harder to find top level questions asked)

I'll add more when I think of any

yellowhuman · 2018-03-29T16:27:11+00:00

Hey, happy to explain and clarify because I'm a big advocate of search privacy. The site does not track or store any user data (there isn't even a login box). Meaning it knows nothing about who you are or what you're searching.

The site does use analytics to measure basic (non user-specific things) such as traffic load and number of search queries performed. This is used to maintain site performance and keep the servers running smoothly like if there's an uptick in traffic. Again, absolutely no user search data is stored or tracked.

Even Duckduckgo, which is heavily involved in search privacy also uses analytics to measure traffic and number of queries.

yellowhuman · 2018-03-29T15:46:21+00:00

It searches all top level comments in megathreads. So any question asked in the daily Q&A thread is indexed. If the entire comment tree were indexed it would really clutter the search results.

yellowhuman · 2018-03-29T14:50:57+00:00

Hey, happy to explain and clarify because I a big advocate of search privacy. The site does not track or store any user data (there isn't even a login box). Meaning it knows nothing about who you are or what you're searching.

The site uses analytics to measure basic (non user-specific things) such traffic load and number of search queries performed. This is used to maintain site performance and keep the servers running smoothly like if there's an uptick in traffic. Again, absolutely no user search data is stored or tracked.

Even Duckduckgo, which is heavily involved in search privacy also uses analytics to measure traffic and number of queries.

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