Indie Hackers retired search. The only way to find one comment was the notification email.

说明与用途

Indie Hackers 删除了搜索、个人资料活动和通知，但电子邮件通知仍包含精确的评论链接。通过在本地邮件中搜索、解码原始邮件并提取带有 commentId 锚点的 URL，作者找到了评论并回复。

问题

The platform removed all in-product discovery paths, making it impossible to locate a specific comment on Indie Hackers.

结果

Successfully located and replied to the comment using the email notification, demonstrating that legacy email channels can compensate for removed platform features.

工作流

• 1. Search for the email containing the username on disk using grep.
• 2. Decode the entire email file with quopri and extract URLs with a regex.
• 3. Identify the comment URL with the ?commentId= anchor.
• 4. Use the URL to navigate to the comment and reply via the DOM.
• 5. Verify the reply was posted correctly by checking the comment hierarchy.

证据

Search no longer exists. Indie Hackers retired this feature in 2026, and it's not coming back.

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The link inside it is wrapped by an email tracking service and chopped up by quoted-printable soft line breaks, so it doesn't survive a casual copy-paste.

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First, decode the file whole rather than parsing it into MIME parts.

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Second, the anchor matters. ?commentId=... is what turns "a post" into "the specific comment."

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The reply box that opens is itself a .comment__main.

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