User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: December 2, 2014/@comment-4129195-20141204181419/@comment-3388044-20141206053603

The loss in views adds up to between 80K and 100K for us this week.

As for the two search bars when one lands at Special:Search, there’s something inherently logical about that to me. For example, if, once you land there, you change the namespaces to be searched, you’d have to use the lower search bar to effect the revised search.