[Cartwright2]

I was banging my head against this earlier last week. It was such a jarring change to visit GitHub and not be able to navigate. It gives me pause to see how suddenly an easily-navigable site can become almost impenetrable with the removal of a single search bar. What are they thinking? The "Explore" menu is worse than useless, too.

It is an interesting case study in UX - the difference between a great experience and an awful one can come down to a single, well placed search box.

What is GitHub's rationale behind this jarringly awful, blatantly bad decision?

[mchaver]

For me search if one of GitHub's key features. It's nice to take a look other people's code, explore other coding styles, find examples of library usage which is great for under documented code.

Unfortunately it does let you escape common characters that are common in code, doesn't give you the option of maintaining white space/line breaks in your query, doesn't let you search in other branches.