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Make search box usable earlier in page loading

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I've been bitten numerous times by opening my WeTrakr PWA shortcut and starting to type a query in the search box, only for the page to finally finish loading and—importantly—clear what I had started to type. To actually search I have to tap in the text field again and start over.

There's a separate idea thread about making the frontend load faster, caching more data, that kind of thing. This is related I guess, but bugs me often enough that I wanted to mention it separately.

I can't speak for everyone, but I have two main workflows with a tracking site:

  • Coming here to mark something I just watched

  • Coming here to mark something I plan to watch

That's ~90% of the times I open WeTrakr. And unless what I just watched is 1) a TV episode that 2) happens to be in my continue-watching shelf, the first thing I do is gonna be a search.

Posted by dgw ·
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  • dgw

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    Aug 31

    (Once again I can't “Change content” of the post after submitting it.)

    Forgot to mention the placeholders in search results saying “10 results” while results are loading. That's weird too, but doesn't affect usability the way clearing my partially typed query does!