Cannot Search

I'm aware of the problem and have contacted the third party service that's causing this error. Hopefully they can be of assistance.

 

The issue is that we use a third party for indexing and search results. The third party is now forcing the use of https instead of the standard http, which means they now only support the secure and encrypted version of the protocol. That sounds great in theory but the problem is that our forum software in its current form doesn't support the use of https for communicating with the search server. That means the search function is completely broken, so I had to temporarily disable it yesterday afternoon.

I contacted the forum software makers to see if they could provide a patch or fix for this, and they said they have no intention of doing that. Their only solution is to upgrade to a completely overhauled version of the entire forum software package that they just recently released. That version is so radically different that it would be like me starting the entire site over from scratch from a look and feel perspective. The upside is that it does support the https protocol for communicating with the search server. The downside is that there could be significant site downtime with an upgrade like that.

Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place.