Spyke
Samsy
lemmy.ml

Searx is dead, next good fork is searxng. As a long year selfhoster, I am sure next evolution is searxngx.

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OldPainreply
lemmy.world

No one asked but I use both too. Easily handled by a Synology NAS with Docker.

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iamhangry
programming.dev

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

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RandomVideos
programming.dev

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

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Carlos Solís
communities.azkware.net

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
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Gunpachireply
lemmings.world

Its a meta search engine that you can configure. It's also selfhostable.

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sj_zero
lotide.fbxl.net

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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Urist
lemmy.ml

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?

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Davereply
lemmy.nz

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.

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techgearwhips
lemmy.world

I just setup my self hosted searxng yesterday... I don't know how I went without this for so long!

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