Currently the "Try With Algolia" button splits 'sortby:{field}' into sort=by{field). There is never a match. Algolia will always default to byPopularity.
Enumerated options:
hn.algolia has sort:
byPopularity (default)
byDate
hn.trieve has sortby:
relevance (default)
num_value
time_stamp
metadata.descendants
Proposed solutions:
(1) Map the default sorting options (relevance to byPopularity and time_stamp to byDate), and others to byPopularity
(2) Provide an interstitial not when user clicks this button to remind them of the features not available on the linked-to search system. I.e. provide a directly link only for num_value and time_stamp, but for the other two provide a brief popup (or maybe only a hover tooltip) that reports to the user something like: "HN Search by Algolia does not offer a comparable sort option: {Relevance, Descendants}. This will load the results according to Algolia's default: byPopularity."
There are many mismatches in feature-sets with the many options available with Trieve's discovery-focused setup. Sorting, particularly by item-level relevance, is a feature that users may expect the search system to have and so may be valuable to warn them to avoid surprise and confusion.
Currently the "Try With Algolia" button splits 'sortby:{field}' into
sort=by{field). There is never a match. Algolia will always default to byPopularity.Enumerated options: hn.algolia has
sort:hn.trieve has
sortby:Proposed solutions: (1) Map the default sorting options (relevance to byPopularity and time_stamp to byDate), and others to byPopularity (2) Provide an interstitial not when user clicks this button to remind them of the features not available on the linked-to search system. I.e. provide a directly link only for num_value and time_stamp, but for the other two provide a brief popup (or maybe only a hover tooltip) that reports to the user something like: "HN Search by Algolia does not offer a comparable sort option: {Relevance, Descendants}. This will load the results according to Algolia's default: byPopularity."
There are many mismatches in feature-sets with the many options available with Trieve's discovery-focused setup. Sorting, particularly by item-level relevance, is a feature that users may expect the search system to have and so may be valuable to warn them to avoid surprise and confusion.