Discourse Search

When To Use

• Gathering community opinions on a technology or approach
• Finding experience reports from HN, Reddit, or Lobsters

When NOT To Use

• Academic research (use /tome:papers)
• Code examples (use /tome:code-search)

Scan community channels for discussions on a topic.

Channels

• Hacker News: Algolia API at hn.algolia.com
• Lobsters: WebSearch with site:lobste.rs
• Reddit: JSON API (append .json to URLs)
• Tech blogs: WebSearch targeting curated domains