Author: Richard
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.08pm, Monday, 2nd December 2013]

I'm curious: in what way is P2's internal search not as good? They're both unfiltered Nominatim results.

(Please don't use needlessly pejorative language like "UI downgrade", it just annoys people and makes it less likely your issue will be fixed. "UI changes" communicates the same information.)

Author: aseerel4c26
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.54am, Tuesday, 3rd December 2013]

@richard: "downgrade" is the most expressive/describing term here, IMHO. Sorry, I do not see a reason for displaying false happiness.

The search in Potlatch is flash (no browser autocompletion, no middle click to paste, ...). The small mag. glass icon is not easy to spot (in fact it looks like a zoom control ... near the +/-). The website's search box is more obvious and known to the user. And, reverse geocoding is not offered by P2, of course (I sometimes like to use bits of that in changeset comments).

Author: aseerel4c26
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.35pm, Saturday, 7th December 2013]

I found another downside of P2's built in search: It does use a third-party server (http://open.mapquestapi.com/) instead of osm.org's own. If someone does not like to share personal data with mapquest P2's search feature is a nogo.

Author: Andy Allan
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.31am, Wednesday, 16th October 2019]

We don't have any plans to address any part of this ticket at the current time, particularly since P2 is in maintenance mode.