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simonbaird
Filter "Your sites" by tags.
So I have only seven wikis but it is already obvious that very soon the Your sites list will be difficult to overview. I wish for something like in the image. This will also encourage people to actually tag their wikis which whill make public ones more easily findable:
It's not quite what you wanted here, but there's now a search box on the "Your sites" page, and it matches tags. So you can search for a tag name and see sites with that tag.
OK, that search feature does not provide anything that simply Ctrl-F (win) doesn't. Even a tad worse, since one has to deliberately click the button after typing, wheras Ctrl-F searches live once it is active. That also goes for searching for tags as they are explicit on the page and Ctrl-F makes no distinction what the string searched for "is".
So, the featured search would be more useful if it allowed for live search - i.e the results are gradually and visually filtered down as one is typing. Also distinguish the results as e.g "wiki title", "tag" perhaps also "description"
Second, its position+design make it easy to miss probably - but, admittedly, this may be because my own extensive list of wikis may have primed me to immediately shift my focus to there.
...but on the other hand, anyone who only has a few wikis won't have any use for the search feature anyway. - Actually, what's the average number of wikis for active users anyway? I have understood that I'm on the extreme end.
The two aspects above - i.e what/how it actually searches, and who is to use such a search feature - makes me think that my OP about showing tags makes more sense and, again, it would foster good (personal) tag usage which then benefits everyone when wikis are made public. (My assumption here is that tags are the main "identifier" used when people locate stuff among hub listed wikis, including the new "template" ideas.)
...but back to the position/layout:
One idea (which I'm not sure is very good) might be to emulate the very position and look of TW own search field, because people are familiar with that.
But I'd think a more useful display would simply be more prominent. Here's a crude illustration to show the idea (where I've also moved the statistics for "number of sites" and GB.
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Further, I get this annoyance when entering the search field. The popup come from the browser and shows searches from my github search field. I suspect it is a result from you using a very generic field name or some such. (Similar things have happened for me with other services):
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OK, hope some of this makes sense :-)
Indeed, I'd say it is name="q", which is identical to github issues search field, causing it
Thanks for the suggestions. I think moving the search box to the left is a good idea.
Having it search while you type is also reasonable, I'll take a look at that some time.
I'm not sure about changing the field name to avoid your GitHub search autocomplete - it seems like a browser configuration thing maybe...?