After using HN for 6 years I just realized that it is there. Instead I had a separate bookmark to HN search for all these years :) . Apparently I just ignore footer completely as useless part of website.
There's room for slight improvements to the hn layout I guess ;) While we're at it, we could maybe place the logout link a bit further away from the profile link to avoid frequent inadvertent logoffs on mobile. Also, it's probably just me, but I haven't yet figured out how to post an Ask HN/Show HN.
I've used search several times, but each time I want to use it again I still waste time looking for it in the header instead of scrolling to the footer.
