integrate Explore and Search

[chadwhitacre]

They're really two ways of approaching the same task of discovery. The interfaces should bleed into each other. Reticketing from #3220.

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[Changaco]

From #3222 (comment):

Not yet. In #3221, I'm proposing that we unify the Explore and Search interfaces.

You mean downgrade the search page to display a table instead of showing the excerpt of the profile statement ?

[chadwhitacre]

There are a number of issues to think through here. I have time now to mention one:

We have a browse interface for communities on Explore, which includes a name filter that duplicates the communities results on Search (though the Explore filter doesn't have fuzzy matching; on the other hand it's zippier because the data is already loaded in the client). Why do we have two ways to search communities? We should have one.