[HN Gopher] RFC.fyi: Browse RFCs by keywords, id or collection ___________________________________________________________________ RFC.fyi: Browse RFCs by keywords, id or collection Author : amjd Score : 31 points Date : 2021-05-30 20:47 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (rfc.fyi) (TXT) w3m dump (rfc.fyi) | axiosgunnar wrote: | Nice, but make sure to "replace" the URL when adding the user | query (= don't "push"), otherwise the user has to press back many | times before he can leave the website again | Retr0spectrum wrote: | I tried one of the example queries, "UDP". | | Out of the 45 search results, the most relevant one (the UDP RFC | itself) was all the way at the bottom, listed as "RFC0768" and | tagged as "legacy". (I'm not sure what legacy actually means | here?) | | Anyway, I clicked the link, which took me to a 404 error page - | https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc0768.html (The correct URL is | apparently without the leading 0) | | This site does seem genuinely useful, but I think the UX could | really use some polishing here, especially since I literally | followed through with one of the example queries in the middle of | the homepage. | jedberg wrote: | This is very cool, but I was sad I can't search by author. | | Also I like the "obsolete" tick box. | | As the other commenter said, this trashes the back button/history | by treating every keypress as a new URL. Make sure you use | replace. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-30 23:00 UTC)