Dear Github, your search input frustrates me

15 points

12 years ago

First of all I'd like to thank you for the awesome work you continuously do on github.com. I am a very happy customer since 2008. It feels that every move you have made was just the one to do at a perfect timing.

The only one move you did that I still do not understand is when you redesigned the search input. Every single time I search for a project I forget to change the drop-down who tell to choose between the current repository or all Github's ones. When I browse github.com 99% of the time I'm on a project's page so every time I have to do deal with this drop-down when it comes to search. It confuses me because the search is not nested into the project page, but it's part of the main Github menu. And everything belongings to the main menu make me think that it will do a global search.

So I would prefer two separate inputs: one for the main search and one for the current repository. I understand it takes some extra space, but I don't mind scrolling a few pixels more comparing to the frustration it is to do one extra useless search every single time I search for a project.

Octokisses,

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