Make something people want, right?
If the majority of folks here want search, and given that it wouldn't take much time to add a link to SearchYC, why not do it?
If the majority of folks here want search, and given that it wouldn't take much time to add a link to SearchYC, why not do it?
In all the time that I've been using it I think I've seen it down only twice, HN over the same period numerous times.
But then at least we do know for sure we need that search.
Would you commit to beefing up the system to whatever it took?
That being said, with a few hundred dollars worth of hardware and some software changes, SearchYC should be able to gracefully handle a couple orders of magnitude more traffic.
You know them well enough to invite them to a private party at your office. Do you know the CO2stats people better, given that you're including a cross-site web-bug javascript from them that frequently blocks the site's page rendering?
It's a few hundred bytes of <form>, you could remove it later if they flamed out with the same ridiculous ease with which you could add it.