I'm just wondering if some sort of search functionality for this site will return? I had used it extensively in the past to see if there were some topics already discussed that I wanted to learn more about but noticed at one point the search bar was removed.

If I'm not mistaken it was never a real search. All it did is redirected to query site:https://handmade.network google search. You can do it yourself - just put query you want and append site:https://handmade.network to it on google.

Huh, look at that. I knew it always redirected to google but never realized that's all you had to do. Awesome, thanks