The lack of a search icon/bar on the forum is off-putting. I found a very brief thread about it,
but it doesn’t explain why this is a deliberate choice. It seems like a very odd thing to exclude from a forum, almost as if the forum is trying to be unwelcoming.
Scrolling down for some reason makes it appear, but the logic of why it is this way escapes me.
Welcome to the forum! 
This is the default behavior in Discourse. It used to be overridden by our custom forum theme — which always showed the search icon — but due to changes upstream, said theme is no longer compatible with the newer Discourse versions. 
What ever was happening seems to be working, at least on my desktop pc with Firefox
That’s rather cryptic…
Are you sure you don’t mean ‘whatever is happening seems to be happening’, or maybe ‘whatever was happening doesn’t seem to be happening’ - what are we talking about here?
The GitHub plugin (#1) states:
“By default, the header search bar is hidden, and the normal search menu icon reappears, when you scroll down on a topic. This is to allow the topic title, category labels and tags to display (aka the ‘extra info’).”
Actually I don’t recall seeing anything that would be affected by the icon in the header… but whatever, the settings should be width sensitive. If you narrow Firefox down to a third screen or less, then it’s opposite…
With or without search icon… Discourses search is very very bad. I often find myself searching the forum through google.
I also hold that opinion. For some reason, it likes throwing up posts already several years old when searching for something that was still only recently discussed. 
Not so loud—the search can hear you… 
I assumed space could be the only logical reason, but it’s an icon in a rather empty title bar.
I also misread “discourse” as discord, I assume discourse is where the forum lives so… out of manjaro’s hands.
I get that everywhere I search re: linux
For someone who for the most part has no issues running manjaro due to it being so gui friendly, the difficulty of searching for solutions is still problematic. I often end up on pages that are a dozen years old.
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Default theme Manjaro has a search bar in the welcome banner on the Categories page, that changes to a search icon when scrolling down, but no search bar for Latest, New or Top pages.
Default and Graceful Theme has a header search bar on all pages
Other Discourse fora have a search bar in the welcome banner that also appears in the header when scrolling down.
Manjaro New Horizon theme has similar features (but not Manjaro colors)
The non-default themes do not show the codeblock-buttons for preformatted text (Copy to clipboard and Fullscreen). And the solution for Manjaro default theme might not be ported to other themes for a while. But this snippet can be used as a CSS override to make them visible:
@media (min-width: 40rem) {
.codeblock-buttons .copy-cmd:not(.action-complete), .codeblock-buttons .fullscreen-cmd:not(.action-complete) {
opacity: 0.7;
visibility: visible;
}
}
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