Hide (or reduce ranking) of discussion links that have no replies

bobby-tables

For example:

https://kagi.com/search?q=promql+holt_winters

In the Top-10 of the results, you receive a link to this Reddit.

However, visiting the Reddit, you are left disappointed. Because you are greeted by a page with a question but no replies.

I therefore suggest that Kagi should de-rank Reddit (and similar) links when there are no replies since they are effectively useless links.

As above.

greyfivenine8244

bobby-tables That really is a good idea. I've already had it several times. Especially useful if you get this as a widget.

KamilKurde

How would this (Kagi knowing if discussion had replies or no) work?

bobby-tables

KamilKurde

I guess the answer to that is "it depends".

For example, on Reddit the boilerplate:

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Is actually machine parsable because it is in the DOM, it is enclosed in <comment-forest-empty-state> with visibility enabled, i.e. <comment-forest-empty-state class="nd:visible" post-id="t3_obtisp">

Elsewhere, for example, https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/, you could count the Permalink

For places that have RSS, they could use that.

RonanCJ

This is a good idea. When Google or Kagi gives me a link to a forum (reddit or traditional) that has a relevant question but no replies, this usually doesn't do anything other than annoy me slightly and waste my time. The one thing that the devs would have to consider is if an author has "Edited" their post to answer their own question, or has marked their own post as a "Solution" after finding an answer to their problem. This could be useful in some scenarios, but could be hard to account for in a way that's scalable.