I love astrophysics but this site is excruciating difficult to search unless you know exactly what you’re looking for. No groupings or tagging, categories, or anything to help you find similar “codes” to an area of interest.
The point of ASCL is around providing a citable reference to the code, independent of the various places it could appear, with minimal effort from researchers. Given it's indexed by NASA ADS, there doesn't seem to be much value in duplicating effort around search, especially when people will go to NASA ADS first anyway.
I love astrophysics but this site is excruciating difficult to search unless you know exactly what you’re looking for. No groupings or tagging, categories, or anything to help you find similar “codes” to an area of interest.
The point of ASCL is around providing a citable reference to the code, independent of the various places it could appear, with minimal effort from researchers. Given it's indexed by NASA ADS, there doesn't seem to be much value in duplicating effort around search, especially when people will go to NASA ADS first anyway.