Still here on my browser (Chrome/Mac) too.

I still have and it works.

Yeah, it SAYS it, but have you TRIED it?

I think I see what you mean. The options are to search in Home Decorating Conversations OR Advice?

So I've tried multiple times, in here, decorating, and kitchens. I've used it fairly recently with no problem, but tonight, no. No matter what I enter into the search bar for each of the stated forums, I get a Houzz page with my username in big letters, and a pile of unrelated threads.

Linelle, did you just try it now? Suzmti - did you search for anything?

I want to clarify, previously, I could search in various forums, by going to the main page for each, like "kitchens" or "conversations" and enter what I wanted into the search bar, which should say "search in Gardenweb", and a GardenWeb page would pop up with my topic, etc. Now I'm thrown into a Houzz page of new threads.

I searched for a couple of terms that I had seen on a recent thread (e.g. laminate counters) and the results yielded them at the top. The rest of the results seemed relevant. I didn't get a Houzz page with my username.

Do you have an option to sort by relevance versus latest activity, etc? I get a drop-down box for that at the top right of my list of seemingly irrelevant results.

Yes, of course, I tried it before I said that it works.

If I just search from this forum, it searches this forum. But it I click on All Discussions on the left, it searches all of them. I tested it with my name and it pulled up stuff in multiple forums.

Search still works for me. I go to the 1st page in a forum(like this one) and type in my search term. It gives me the option to search in this forum, search in photos, etc.

It's like being in Alice in Wonderland. Things are changed, then they change back.. Last night suddenly the Search was accessible again to me, and I wasn't being sent to Houzz or down the Rabbit hole or should I say through the mirror where everything is different!!! Wow.

Glad it's working for you now, Indigo Rose.

Guessing this might not have been a problem on the website's side, but more likely something in your own system/browser/server...?

Remember that old rule of thumb & don't forget to try restarting, or powering off and back on...

Something has definitely been going on the last few days. I've been getting timeouts and error messages and every day something seems to have been tweaked a bit. Not obvious changes but more like "was it always this way and I didn't notice?" changes.

Well, I had to restore default Chrome settings this morning, and now when I try to get here the way I always have, by googling That Home Site, now I'm getting only "the dark side". I had to go into my activity and click on this page to get to this familiar setting. So, today's problem has something to do with my settings change, but Carolb, yesterday's issue was nothing I did, because I didn't change anything or do anything differently, and one minute I couldn't access search info, and then later after posting my lament- pouf- I could. These issues and roadblocks are becoming tiresome, but I don't want to leave yet because I hate to admit - how accustom -ok- addicted I am to "GW" and all the familiar posters. And frankly I am going to be really sad if GW as I knew it continues to slowly fade away....

Indigo Rose, that's exactly how I feel ... it's getting tiresome. I was stuck in Houzz again for a few days after having to delete my history/cookies/cache in Firefox this week due to problems with this site. It finally righted itself today and the forums are back to normal. Really a PITA having to deal with the different formats.

It would be nice if Houzz would post a notice if and when they are working on the site.

I am not able to search the actual forums. I put in the search term and my options are not forums it is search in advice, pictures, etc but not the actual forum. It's worthless. On various devices.

Screen shot of the worthless search options. This was done from this forum.

replicating Raven's search, this is what I see to search (on a Mac using Firefox)

I wish I had that top option! I don't know what the problem is. This is on my android phone with Chrome browser.