The things you can do with search

This is awesome for developers and power users. For normal humans who spend their time outside talking to other normal humans and doing normal human things instead of sitting in darkened basements learning all the shortcuts, it's less so.

That's OK, the search form will make it easier and the defaults for what happens when you just type in the box will change

I really hope that this will be the case, because as it is right now it is dizzyingly complex. And I'm saying this as a developer. Only a very small number of people are going to read that explanation of "how to search", the rest of them are going to be constantly going "how do I search?" and then "I don't have time for this". Of those that do read it and take it in, they're going to have to think about how to do something that should be automatic, which is in flagrant breach of Krug's First and Second Laws of Usability.

But obvs it's a work in progress and I'm looking forward to seeing your solution.