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**JoshInJapan**

Out of curiosity, I decided to search the Introductions forum for any new users in Japan. I got this message:

An error has occurred.

For detailed error information, please see the HTML source code, and contact the forum Administrator.

with a long string of gobbledygook:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(org.apache.lucene.search.Query, org.apache.lucene.search.Sort)" because the return value of "net.jforum.search.DakkaSearchConnectionController.getIndexSearcher()" is null

This seems to happen with anything I search for.

**Lathe Biosas**

Iegoburner had posted this earlier:

legoburner wrote:
A few AI scrapers have been blocked already, causing barely a blip on the server load, hurrah!

The search engine will be offline for a couple of weeks as rebuilding 11 million posts worth of search is... challenging!

**JoshInJapan**

D'oh! Thanks for pointing that out.

Lathe Biosas wrote:
Iegoburner had posted this earlier:

legoburner wrote:
A few AI scrapers have been blocked already, causing barely a blip on the server load, hurrah!

The search engine will be offline for a couple of weeks as rebuilding 11 million posts worth of search is... challenging!