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08 MAY 2026

David decided: Hid granular's search feature from production so it's invisible even to engineers in DevTools

David directed that the granular search bar be hidden in a way that even a skilled engineer inspecting DevTools couldn't discover or re-enable it.


David decided to temporarily pull the global search feature from granular's production surface:

please hide the search bar on granular and then re-adjust the positioning of everything so there's no residual big white gap. by hide i mean you should hide the feature so that even a smart engineer couldn't see it in the dev tools and use it

This was a deliberate product gate — not a simple CSS display:none — indicating that the search feature wasn't ready for even early exploratory use. The implementation required code removal or structural changes that made it non-discoverable, while also preserving visual layout coherence.


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