Searx is dead, next good fork is searxng. As a long year selfhoster, I am sure next evolution is searxngx.
You a Paperless user too? ;)
Yes, lol.
Funny that I found out about it this morning and at night it was abandoned. Makes it look like it was one of my projects lol
Searxng is still going strong
I literally thought about switching to it yesterday -.-
Switch to SearxNG instead
Sure you did
This isn’t the case for SearxNG, right‽
I was using OG SearX for the longest time, it was only until very recently that I discovered that:
- SearXNG was a thing
- SearX had not been updated in years
- and most importantly, that I had been stuck with the unmaintained edition without me even noticing
If i had a nickel for every time i switched from a popular app or service to a more privacy respecting alternative and then quickly after announcing that it will end, i would have 2 nickels, which is not a lot, but its weird it happened twice
Searxng is the maintained fork, fyi
Can’t wait for Searxngx
And its successor Searxngx-ng
Weird it happened twice? My god you are a lucky person.
I just switched from google to searx 2 days ago
TIL about searx.
Searx was amazing for doing research for school. Sad to see it go.
SearxNG is still here to help
I didn’t know about SearxNG. Long live Searx!
When is SearsNG: Drive coming out?
And here I was not having gotten around to setting it up yet. Are there any particular reason it is forked instead of ownership being transferred or something?
Searx and Searxng existed side by side for a long time. Searx had a focus on privacy without compromising, Searxng has a focus on usability. So Searxng uses javascript, works better on mobile, and does things like search suggestions.
I think there was a disagreement on direction of the project so it was forked and both versions were maintained until now when they are reasonable different from each other and the original is falling behind in features and updates.
Thanks for the explanation :)
Switch to 4get, It’s better. 4get.ca https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get
Better how?
Seems to find things easier than Brave from just a few test searches. I’ll keep using it for now
Wow, this is amazing! Brilliant work!
The Gittea theme is terrible for the eyes 🫤
What is/was it?
Its a meta search engine that you can configure. It’s also selfhostable.
I self-hosted searx for a long time and it was clear to me that was the case so I migrated to searxng.
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This doesn’t surprise me at all.
Whaaaaaa?!
There’s a fork called searxng that is still very active