Not OP, but I struggle with Discourse search, both in terms of usability (not quite good) and presentation - both D. itself and it's search is made by someone who doesn't need to exchange information and persist it. After some attempts I just fallback to external search with 'site:domain.tld search term'.
Wasting 90% of my screen real estate while actually hiding useful information isn't helping too.
Wasting 90% of my screen real estate while actually hiding useful information isn't helping too.